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.

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.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- 1 Introduction / Alberdina Houtman , Tamar Kadari , Marcel Poorthuis and Vered Tohar -- 2 Storytelling and Meaning: Theory and Practice of Narrative Variants in Religious Texts / Eli Yassif -- 3 The Adamic Myth from Canaan / Marjo Korpel -- 4 The Development of the Adamic Myth in Genesis Rabbah / Alberdina Houtman -- 5 First Man, First Twins: The Origins of Humankind in Zoroastrian Thought / Albert de Jong -- 6 The Fall of Iblīs and its Enochic Background / Tommaso Tesei -- 7 Interreligious Aspects in the Narrative of the Burial of Adam in Pirkei de-Rabbi Eliezer / Adiel Kadari -- 8 Aggadic Motifs in the Story of Jonah: A Study of Interaction between Religions / Tamar Kadari -- 9 Jewish Legal Practice and Piety in the Acts of the Apostles: Apologetics or Identity Marker? / Eyal Regev -- 10 Bound in Righteousness: Variances and Versions of the Aqedah Story in Jewish Hymnography (Piyyut) / Wout van Bekkum -- 11 The Biblical Stories about the Prophet Elijah in Early Syriac-Speaking Christianity / Gerard Rouwhorst -- 12 Sūrat Yūsuf (xii) and Some of Its Possible Jewish Sources / Meir Bar-Ilan -- 13 The Well of Miriam and Its Mythological Forebears / Jan Willem van den Bosch -- 14 Bethlehem and the Birth of the Messiah in the Eyes of a Byzantine Jewish Storyteller: Rebuke or Consolation / Paul Mandel -- 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 / Marcel Poorthuis -- 16 On Marrying and Divorcing a Demon: Marriage and Divorce Themes in the Jewish, Christian, and Pagan World / Margaretha Folmer -- 17 Ascension Traditions in Jerusalem / Michael Ehrlich -- 18 Waiting for the Harvest: Trajectories of Rabbinic and “Christian” Parables / Eric Ottenheijm -- 19 Reading Chad Gadya through the Kaleidoscope of Time / Meir Seidler -- 20 Ẓemaḥ Ẓaddik by Leon of Modena: Between Two Worlds / Vered Tohar -- 21 “We do not pray, we invent”: Jews, Judaism, and Jewish Mysticism in the Video Game “Wolfenstein: The New Order” / Frank G. Bosman and Leon Mock -- 22 Power Women: The Retelling of Sacred Narratives in an Interreligious Context / G.M. Speelman -- 23 Biblical Murals in Medieval Frisian Churches / Gert van Klinken -- 24 Sinai—The Mountain of God / Shulamit Laderman -- Index of Names -- Index of Sources.