Religious stories in transformation : : conflict, revision and reception / / edited by Alberdina Houtman [and three others].

• Superior document: Jewish and Christian Perspectives Series, Volume 31
• TeilnehmendeR: Houtman, Alberdina,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2016.; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Jewish and Christian perspectives series ; Volume 31.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (498 pages) :; color illustrations.
• Other title: Preliminary Material --; 1 Introduction /; 2 Storytelling and Meaning: Theory and Practice of Narrative Variants in Religious Texts /; 3 The Adamic Myth from Canaan /; 4 The Development of the Adamic Myth in Genesis Rabbah /; 5 First Man, First Twins: The Origins of Humankind in Zoroastrian Thought /; 6 The Fall of Iblīs and its Enochic Background /; 7 Interreligious Aspects in the Narrative of the Burial of Adam in Pirkei de-Rabbi Eliezer /; 8 Aggadic Motifs in the Story of Jonah: A Study of Interaction between Religions /; 9 Jewish Legal Practice and Piety in the Acts of the Apostles: Apologetics or Identity Marker? /; 10 Bound in Righteousness: Variances and Versions of the Aqedah Story in Jewish Hymnography (Piyyut) /; 11 The Biblical Stories about the Prophet Elijah in Early Syriac-Speaking Christianity /; 12 Sūrat Yūsuf (xii) and Some of Its Possible Jewish Sources /; 13 The Well of Miriam and Its Mythological Forebears /; 14 Bethlehem and the Birth of the Messiah in the Eyes of a Byzantine Jewish Storyteller: Rebuke or Consolation /; 15 The Infallibility of the Prophets and the Fallible Jesus in Islam: On the Transformation of a Jewish Story into an Islamic Anti-Christian Polemic /; 16 On Marrying and Divorcing a Demon: Marriage and Divorce Themes in the Jewish, Christian, and Pagan World /; 17 Ascension Traditions in Jerusalem /; 18 Waiting for the Harvest: Trajectories of Rabbinic and “Christian” Parables /; 19 Reading Chad Gadya through the Kaleidoscope of Time /; 20 Ẓemaḥ Ẓaddik by Leon of Modena: Between Two Worlds /; 21 “We do not pray, we invent”: Jews, Judaism, and Jewish Mysticism in the Video Game “Wolfenstein: The New Order” /; 22 Power Women: The Retelling of Sacred Narratives in an Interreligious Context /; 23 Biblical Murals in Medieval Frisian Churches /; 24 Sinai—The Mountain of God /; Index of Names --; Index of Sources.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and indexes.
• ISBN: 9004334815
• ISSN: 1388-2074
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Alberdina Houtman [and three others].

In Religious Stories in Transformation: Conflict, Revision and Reception , the editors present a collection of essays that reveal both the many similarities and the poignant differences between ancient myths in Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and modern secular culture and how these stories were incorporated and adapted over time. This rich multidisciplinary research demonstrates not only how stories in different religions and cultures are interesting in their own right, but also that the process of transformation in particular deserves scholarly interest. It is through the changes in the stories that the particular identity of each religion comes to the fore most strikingly.