Strangers in the Land: Traveling Texts, Imagined Others, and Captured Souls in Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Traditions in Late Antique and Mediaeval Times /

Strangers in the Land: Traveling Texts, Imagined Others, and Captured Souls in Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Traditions in Late Antique and Mediaeval Times /

This volume explores the ways in which representatives of different monotheistic traditions perceived and described or experienced themselves as "the other." This central category - which includes not only those of different religions, but also converts, foreigners, sectarians, and women -...

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Other Authors: Hjälm, Miriam L. (Editor), Zawanowska, Marzena (Editor)

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Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2024.

Series: Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2024.
Studies on the Children of Abraham ; 11.

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Biblical Studies.

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Call Number: BS709.4

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Table of Contents:
  • Transliteration
  • Strangers in the Land
  • Traveling Texts, Imagined Others, and Captured Souls in Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Traditions in Late Antique and Mediaeval Times: an Introduction
  •   Miriam L. Hjälm and Marzena Zawanowska
  • Part 1 In Quest for Timeless Meaning: The Other in Biblical Exegesis
  • 1 Blessed Is the One Who Kills Infants: "The Other" in Eastern Christian Reception of Psalm 137
  •   Miriam L. Hjälm
  • 2 The Attitude of the Early Karaites to the Converts According to Their Interpretation of the Bible
  •   Yoram Erder
  • 3 The Treatment of Biblical Idols (Ar. aṣnām ) in Andalusi Hebrew Lexicography
  •   Jose Martinez Delgado
  • 4 The Vision of the "Other" in Menahem ha-Meiri's Commentary on Psalms
  •   Mariano Gomez Aranda
  • Part 2 Between Reality and Imagination: "The Other" in Documentary, Legal, and Mystical Sources
  • 5 The Career of a Jewish exilé at the Muslim Court in Medieval al-Andalus: Samuel ha-Nagid as Dhimmi in Power, Hebrew Poet and Muslim Dignitary
  •   Barbara Gryczan
  • 6 Benevolent Strangers: The Founding of Granada, Zirid Memory and Ideology of Power in the Kitāb al-tibyān of ʿAbd Allāh b. Buluqqīn b. Zīrī
  •   Mateusz Wilk
  • 7 "Double Strangers": Women's Conversion to Judaism in the Cairo Geniza Documents
  •   Amir Ashur
  • 8 Absent From Its World: The Image of Fallen Soul in al-Suhrawardī's al-Wāridāt wa-l-taqdisāt [Divine Inspirations and Sanctifications]
  •   Łukasz Piątak
  • 9 A Sharia Perspective on Inequality according to Selected Maliki Fatwas from Medieval Maghreb
  •   Filip A. Jakubowski
  • Part 3 Recycling Sources, Constructing Traditions: "The Other and the Self" in Narratives on the Past
  • 10 The Self as the Other in the Jewish Literature of the Egyptian Diaspora in the Hellenistic Period: The Case of the Letter of Aristeas
  •   Agata Grzybowska
  • 11 A Christian Away from Home: The Greek Sources of Abgar's Legend Revisited
  •   Sergio López Calero and Israel Muñoz Gallarte
  • 12 An Idumean between Nabataeans and Romans: On the Source-Text of a Passage in Maḥūb al-Manbijī's Kitāb al-ʿunwān
  •   Juan Pedro Monferrer-Sala
  • 13 The Exile of Cain in the Kitāb al-ʿUnwān : An Ancient Tradition on the Melkite Literature
  •   Lourdes Bonhome
  • Index.