Strangers In The Land Traveling Texts Imagined Others And Captured Souls In Jewish Christian And Muslim Traditions In Late Antique And Mediaeval Times
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Strangers In The Land Traveling Texts Imagined Others And Captured Souls In Jewish Christian And Muslim Traditions In Late Antique And Mediaeval Times
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language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2024-06-03
Strangers In The Land Traveling Texts Imagined Others And Captured Souls In Jewish Christian And Muslim Traditions In Late Antique And Mediaeval Times written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-06-03 with Religion categories.
This volume explores the ways in which representatives of different monotheistic traditions experienced themselves as “the other” or were perceived and described as such by their contemporaries. This central category – which includes not only those of different religions, but also converts, foreigners, sectarians, and women – is studied from various perspectives in a range of texts composed by Jewish, Christian, and Muslim authors during late antique and mediaeval times. Conceptualizations of such “others” are often intrinsically related to the idea of exile, another important category that is analysed in this work.
Strangers In Yemen
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Author : David Malkiel
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2020-12-16
Strangers In Yemen written by David Malkiel and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-16 with History categories.
Strangers in Yemen is a study of travel to Yemen in the nineteenth century by Jews, Christians and Muslims. The travelers include a missionary, artist, scientist, rabbi, merchant, adventurer and soldier. The focus is on the encounter between people of different cultures, and the chapters analyze the travelers’ accounts to elucidate how strangers and locals perceived each other, and how the experiences shaped their perceptions of themselves. Cultural encounter is among the most important challenges of our time, a time of global migration and instant communication. Today, as in the past, history provides a valuable tool for illuminating the human experience, and this scholarly work stimulates us to contemplate the challenge of cultural encounter, for it affects us all.
Jews And Journeys
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Author : Joshua Levinson
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2021-08-06
Jews And Journeys written by Joshua Levinson and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-06 with Religion categories.
Journeys of dislocation and return, of discovery and conquest hold a prominent place in the imagination of many cultures. Wherever an individual or community may be located, it would seem, there is always the dream of being elsewhere. This has been especially true throughout the ages for Jews, for whom the promises and perils of travel have influenced both their own sense of self and their identity in the eyes of others. How does travel writing, as a genre, produce representations of the world of others, against which one's own self can be invented or explored? And what happens when Jewish authors in particular—whether by force or of their own free will, whether in reality or in the imagination—travel from one place to another? How has travel figured in the formation of Jewish identity, and what cultural and ideological work is performed by texts that document or figure specifically Jewish travel? Featuring essays on topics that range from Abraham as a traveler in biblical narrative to the guest book entries at contemporary Israeli museum and memorial sites; from the marvels medieval travelers claim to have encountered to eighteenth-century Jewish critiques of Orientalism; from the Wandering Jew of legend to one mid-twentieth-century Yiddish writer's accounts of his travels through Peru, Jews and Journeys explores what it is about travel writing that enables it to become one of the central mechanisms for exploring the realities and fictions of individual and collective identity.
The Stranger In Early Modern And Modern Jewish Tradition
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Author : Catherine Bartlett
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2021-07-15
The Stranger In Early Modern And Modern Jewish Tradition written by Catherine Bartlett and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-15 with Religion categories.
Throughout history, Jews have often been regarded, and treated, as “strangers.” In The Stranger in Early Modern and Modern Jewish Tradition, authors from a wide variety of disciplines discuss how the notion of “the stranger” can offer an integrative perspective on Jewish identities, on the non-Jewish perceptions of Jews, and on the relations between Jews and non-Jews in an innovative way. Contributions from history, philosophy, religion, sociology, literature, and the arts offer a new perspective on the Jewish experience in early modern and modern times: in contact and conflict, in processes of attribution and allegation, but also self-reflection and negotiation, focused on the figure of the stranger.
Christian Identity Amid Islam In Medieval Spain
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Author : Charles L. Tieszen
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2013-05-30
Christian Identity Amid Islam In Medieval Spain written by Charles L. Tieszen and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-30 with Religion categories.
In Christian Identity amid Islam in Medieval Spain Charles L. Tieszen explores a small corpus of texts from medieval Spain in an effort to deduce how their authors defined their religious identity in light of Islam, and in turn, how they hoped their readers would distinguish themselves from the Muslims in their midst. It is argued that the use of reflected self-image as a tool for interpreting Christian anti-Muslim polemic allows such texts to be read for the self-image of their authors instead of the image of just those they attacked. As such, polemic becomes a set of borders authors offered to their communities, helping them to successfully navigate inter-religious living.
Muslims Of Medieval Latin Christendom C 1050 1614
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Author : Brian A. Catlos
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2014-03-20
Muslims Of Medieval Latin Christendom C 1050 1614 written by Brian A. Catlos and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-20 with History categories.
An innovative study which explores how the presence of Muslim communities transformed Europe and stimulated Christian society to define itself.
Jacob Esau
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Author : Malachi Haim Hacohen
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2019-01-10
Jacob Esau written by Malachi Haim Hacohen and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-10 with History categories.
Accommodates both the cosmopolitan narrative of the Jewish diaspora with traditional Jews and their culture.
The Cambridge History Of Judaism Volume 2 The Hellenistic Age
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Author : William David Davies
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1984
The Cambridge History Of Judaism Volume 2 The Hellenistic Age written by William David Davies and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with Religion categories.
Vol. 4 covers the late Roman period to the rise of Islam. Focuses especially on the growth and development of rabbinic Judaism and of the major classical rabbinic sources such as the Mishnah, Jerusalem Talmud, Babylonian Talmud and various Midrashic collections.
The Invention Of The Jewish People
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Author : Shlomo Sand
language : en
Publisher: Verso Books
Release Date : 2020-08-04
The Invention Of The Jewish People written by Shlomo Sand and has been published by Verso Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-04 with History categories.
A historical tour de force that demolishes the myths and taboos that have surrounded Jewish and Israeli history, The Invention of the Jewish People offers a new account of both that demands to be read and reckoned with. Was there really a forced exile in the first century, at the hands of the Romans? Should we regard the Jewish people, throughout two millennia, as both a distinct ethnic group and a putative nation—returned at last to its Biblical homeland? Shlomo Sand argues that most Jews actually descend from converts, whose native lands were scattered far across the Middle East and Eastern Europe. The formation of a Jewish people and then a Jewish nation out of these disparate groups could only take place under the sway of a new historiography, developing in response to the rise of nationalism throughout Europe. Beneath the biblical back fill of the nineteenth-century historians, and the twentieth-century intellectuals who replaced rabbis as the architects of Jewish identity, The Invention of the Jewish People uncovers a new narrative of Israel’s formation, and proposes a bold analysis of nationalism that accounts for the old myths. After a long stay on Israel’s bestseller list, and winning the coveted Aujourd’hui Award in France, The Invention of the Jewish People is finally available in English. The central importance of the conflict in the Middle East ensures that Sand’s arguments will reverberate well beyond the historians and politicians that he takes to task. Without an adequate understanding of Israel’s past, capable of superseding today’s opposing views, diplomatic solutions are likely to remain elusive. In this iconoclastic work of history, Shlomo Sand provides the intellectual foundations for a new vision of Israel’s future.
The Cambridge Companion To Shakespeare And Religion
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Author : Hannibal Hamlin
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2019-03-28
The Cambridge Companion To Shakespeare And Religion written by Hannibal Hamlin and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-28 with Literary Criticism categories.
A wide-ranging yet accessible investigation into the importance of religion in Shakespeare's works, from a team of eminent international scholars.