Jacob's shipwreck : diaspora, translation, and Jewish-Christian relations in medieval England / Ruth Nisse.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nisse, Ruth, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Judaism--Relations--Christianity.

Judaism.

Relations.

Christianity.

Christianity and other religions--Judaism.

Christianity and other religions.

Intellectual life--Religious aspects--Judaism.

Intellectual life.

Intellectual life--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Latin literature.

Hebrew literature.

Multilingualism.

History.

England--Church history--1066-1485.

England.

Church history.

Multilingualism--England--History--To 1500.

Hebrew literature--History and criticism--Early works to 1800.

Latin literature--History and criticism--Early works to 1800.

Physical Description:

x, 235 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2017.

Summary:

"A study of how Jewish and Christian writers of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries rewrite, translate, and circulate ancient texts, primarily the post-biblical literature of the late antique and early medieval periods. The project focuses on these hybrid medieval Latin and Hebrew texts at the point when they enter into either dialogue or disputation with each other over religious and geographic identities in England and Northern France; this dynamic is especially evident during the period of the Crusades. Some of the wide variety of texts and genres include medieval Latin and Hebrew reworkings of Josephus' Jewish War, the Anglo-French Play of Adam, and the Latin "Romance" of the patriarch Joseph's Egyptian wife, Aseneth"-- American Council of Learned Societies Web site.

Contents:

Josephus, Jerusalem, and the martyrs of medieval England

Diaspora without end and the renewal of epic

A fox among fish? : Berechiah ha-Naqdan's translations

Pleasures and dangers of conversion : Joseph and Aseneth

The testaments of the twelve patriarchs in the shadow of the ten lost tribes.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Nisse, Ruth, author. Jacob's shipwreck.

ISBN:

9781501703072

1501703072

OCLC:

960940560