The Hebrew Bible in fifteenth-century Spain : exegesis, literature, philosophy, and the arts /

The Hebrew Bible in fifteenth-century Spain : exegesis, literature, philosophy, and the arts / / edited by Jonathan Decter and Arturo Prats.

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The Hebrew Bible in Fifteenth-Century Spain: Exegesis, Literature, Philosophy, and the Arts investigates the relationship between the Bible and the cultural production of Iberian societies between the anti-Jewish riots of 1391 and the Expulsion of 1492. During this turbulent and transformative perio...

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Superior document:Etudes sur le judaïsme médiéval, t. 54
TeilnehmendeR:
Decter, Jonathan P., 1971-
Prats Oliván, Arturo.
Year of Publication:2012
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Etudes sur le judaïsme médiéval ; t. 54.
Physical Description:1 online resource (300 p.)
Notes:Proceedings of a conference held in Oct. 2008 in Madrid, Spain.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction / Given-Name Surname
  • Weeping Over Rachel’s Tomb: Literary Reelaborations of a Midrashic Motif in Medieval and Early Modern Spain / Luis M. Girón-Negrón
  • The First Murder: Picturing Polemic c. 1391 / Tom Nickson
  • Sephardic Illuminated Bibles: Jewish Patrons and Fifteenth-Century Christian Ateliers / Andreina Contessa
  • Abarbanel’s Exegetical Subversion of Maimonides’ ʿAqedah: Transforming a Knight of Intellectual Virtue into a Knight of Existential Faith / James A. Diamond
  • “From My Flesh I Envision God”: Shem Ṭov Ibn Shaprut’̣ s Exegesis of Job 19:25–27 / Libby Garshowitz
  • Messianic Interpretation of the Song of Songs in Late-Medieval Iberia / Maud Kozodoy
  • Pro-Converso Apologetics and Biblical Exegesis / Claude B. Stuczynski
  • A Father’s Bequest: Augustinian Typology and Personal Testimony in the Conversion Narrative of Solomon Halevi/Pablo de Santa María / Ryan Szpiech
  • The Liturgy of Portuguese Conversos / Asher Salah
  • The Relationship between Ladino Liturgical Texts and Spanish Bibles / Ora (Rodrigue) Schwarzwald
  • Translation and the Invention of Renaissance Jewish Culture: The Case of Judah Messer Leon and Judah Abravanel / Aaron W. Hughes
  • Index
  • Appendix: Illustrations.

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