The wiles of women/the wiles of men : Joseph and Potiphar's wife in ancient Near Eastern, Jewish, and Islamic folklore / Shalom Goldman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goldman, Shalom.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jewish legends--History and criticism.

Jewish legends.

Legends--Middle East--History and criticism.

Legends.

Middle Eastern literature--Relation to the Old Testament.

Middle Eastern literature.

Joseph (Son of Jacob)--Legends.

Joseph.

Potiphar's wife (Biblical figure)--Legends.

Potiphar's wife.

Physical Description:

xxxiii, 189 p. : ill.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, 1995.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Focusing on gender issues, this book compares and contrasts the treatment of the Potiphar's Wife motif--in which a woman makes vain overtures to a man and then accuses him of attempting to force himself upon her--in ancient Near Eastern, Jewish, and Islamic folklore.

Contents:

Intro

Between Jerusalem and Benares

Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface

1. Introduction: Judaism and Hinduism: Cultural Resonances

2. The Love and Hate of Hinduism in the Work of Jewish Scholars

Part One: Historical Encounters

3. Lexical Borrowings in Biblical Hebrew from Indian Languages as Carriers of Ideas and Technical Concepts

4. Abraham and the Upanishads

5. Between Jews and Greeks: The Indian Model

6. A Hindu Response to the Written Torah

7. Yom Kippur: The Festival of Closing the Doors

Part Two: Cultural Resonances

8. Veda and Torah: The World Embodied in Scripture

9. From Dharma to Law

10. Union and Unity in Hindu Tantrism

11. Union and Unity in Kabbalah

12. Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook and Sri Aurobindo: Towards a Comparison

Contributors

Notes

Index

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

Q

R

S

T

U

V

W

Y

Z.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [169]-177) and index.

ISBN:

9781438404318

143840431X

9780585046129

0585046123

OCLC:

42417737