Polemical and Exegetical Polarities in Medieval Jewish Cultures : : Studies in Honour of Daniel J. Lasker /

Polemical and Exegetical Polarities in Medieval Jewish Cultures : : Studies in Honour of Daniel J. Lasker / / ed. by Ehud Krinis, Nabih Bashir, Sara Offenberg, Shalom Sadik.

In his academic career, that by now spans six decades, Daniel J. Lasker distinguished himself by the wide range of his scholarly interests. In the field of Jewish theology and philosophy he contributed significantly to the study of Rabbinic as well as Karaite authors. In the field of Jewish polemics...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2021
MitwirkendeR:
Bareli, Matanel,
Ben-Shammai, Haggai,
Berger, David,
Friedman, Mordechai Akiva,
Goldstein, Miriam,
Harvey, Warren Zev,
Kanarfogel, Ephraim,
Kellner, Menachem,
Kogman-Appel, Katrin,
Kreisel, Howard,
Krinis, Ehud,
Lasker, Daniel J.,
Lawee, Eric,
Lockshin, Martin,
Offenberg, Sara,
Polliack, Meira,
Sadik, Shalom,
Sklare, David,
Stroumsa, Sarah,
Szpiech, Ryan,
Walfish, Barry Dov,
Yisraeli, Yosi,
HerausgeberIn:
Bashir, Nabih,
Krinis, Ehud,
Offenberg, Sara,
Sadik, Shalom,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2021]
©2021
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Studia Judaica : Forschungen zur Wissenschaft des Judentums , 113
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Physical Description:1 online resource (XII, 513 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgement
  • Contents
  • I On Daniel J. Lasker and his Scholarship
  • Prof. Daniel J. Lasker – Scholar, Teacher, and Friend
  • Daniel J. Lasker and His Treatment of Jewish Polemics
  • List of Publications
  • II Jewish Polemics and Exegesis in the Islamicate World
  • Polemical Logic: Al-Muqammaṣ’s Refutation of Christianity
  • The Role of Gog in Daniel al-Qūmisī’s Eschatology
  • Theological Consideration of the Gift of the Land and the Radical Treatment of the “Seven Nations” in Medieval Judeo-Arabic Exegesis
  • Epistemology in the Service of Polemic: Yūsuf al-Baṣīr’s Kitāb al-Istiʿānah: Text and Translation
  • Maimonides on the Status of Judaism
  • Abraham Maimonides on Reclaiming Judaism’s Lost “Perfection” from the “Imperfection” of Islam
  • III Jewish and Anti-Jewish Polemic and Exegesis in the Christian World
  • Abraham bar Ḥiyya (d. ca. 1136) on “The Pure Soul”
  • Asmakhtaʾ and Abraham ibn Ezra’s Exegesis
  • The Finding of the “True Cross” in Judah Hadassi’s Eškol ha-Kofer and the Polemical Parody Toledot Yešu
  • The Book of Nestor the Priest and the Toledot Yešu in the Polemics of Abner of Burgos/Alfonso of Valladolid
  • Rashi on Isaiah 53: Exegetical Judgment or Response to the Crusade?
  • “The Best of Snakes. . .”: A Polemical Midrash in the Rashi Supercommentary Tradition
  • The Discussion of the Messiah in Crescas’s Refutation
  • Joshua Ha-Lorki on the Meaning of Emunah: Between Religion and Faith
  • Jewish Anti-Semites: The Case of Medieval Apostates
  • Daniel in the Lions’ Den: Jewish-Christian Polemics in Medieval Text and Image
  • IV Jewish-Jewish and Jewish-Christian Relations
  • Understanding the Uneven Reception of Rabbenu Tam’s Taqqanot
  • Ritual Imagery Gone Wrong: A Fifteenth-Century Siddur in a Christian Workshop
  • Transliteration Charts
  • Index of Names

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