The hermeneutical Jew : essays on inter-religious encounters in honour of Jeremy Cohen / edited by Ram Ben-Shalom and Yosi Yisraeli.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cohen, Jeremy, 1953- honouree.

Ben-Shalom, Ram, editor.

Yisraeli, Yosi, editor.

EBSCOhost

Series:

Cultural encounters in late antiquity and the Middle Ages ; 1378-8779 v. 42.

Cultural encounters in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, 1378-8779 ; volume 42

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Judaism--Relations--Christianity--History--To 1500.

Judaism.

Christianity and other religions--Judaism--History--To 1500.

Christianity and other religions.

Hermeneutics--Religious aspects--Judaism.

Hermeneutics.

Hermeneutics--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Jews--History--70-1789.

Jews.

Antisemitism--History--To 1500.

Antisemitism.

Judaism--History--Medieval and early modern period, 425-1789.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (355 pages) : 5 illustrations (chiefly color.

Place of Publication:

Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, [2025]

Contents:

Introduction. A Game of Mirrors: Jeremy Cohen and the Literary Matrix of the Jewish-Christian Encounter / Yosi Yisraeli and Ram Ben-Shalom

I. Literary mirrors and inter-religious representations. Unetaneh tokef: From John of Patmos to Amnon of Mainz / Israel Yuval ; Narrative as Historical Interpretation: Rabbi Eliyahu Capsali's 'Cycle of Ashkenaz Tales' / Eli Yassif ; The Hermeneutic Gentile: The Evolution of the Anti-Jewish Rhetoric in the Mesirat Haman Monologue / Roni Cohen ; The Hermeneutics of Power: Competing Narratives of Imperial Origins / Uri Z. Shachar ; From the Hermeneutical Jew to the Intersectional Jewess: Gender, Identity, and Scopic Ambivalence in Medieval Europe / Avital Davidovich-Eshed

II. Physical and figurative encounters: inter-religious gazes. Hermeneutical Objects in Late Antique Jerusalem / Ora Limor ; Signing with the Cross and Other Ritualized Gestures in Medieval Jewish-Christian Encounters / Irven M. Resnick ; Facing the Crucifix: Herman of Cologne

A 'Hermeneutical Jew' Reacting to Christian Symbolism? / Ephraim Shoham-Steiner ; Animals at War in the Kennicott Bible / Katrin Kogman-Appel

III. Agents of anti-Jewish discourse: between hermeneutical and real Jews. How Hermeneutical are the Jews in Gratian's Decretum? / Anna Sapir Abulafia ; Evelyn Faye Wilson, John of Garland, and the 'Invisible' Jews / William Chester Jordan ; Manuforte of Trani: An Assessment / Piero Capelli

IV. The transformability of the Jews and the hermeneutics of inter-religious conversion. Carnal Israel? The Medieval Conceit of Jews as Organs in the Social Body / Ryan Szpiech ; Mass Conversion, Genealogical Mentalities, and the History of Race: Jews and Muslims in North Africa and Iberia / David Nirenberg ; . 'They shall return at evening': A pro-Converso Response against the Inconvertibility of the Jews (between the Katechontic and the Messianic) / Claude B. Stuczynski.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

e-book version

ISBN:

9782503612102 (electronic bk.)

2503612105 (electronic bk.)

Publisher Number:

40032916472

9782503612096

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