The Hebrew Bible in Fifteenth-Century Spain: Exegesis, Literature, Philosophy, and the Arts

Author:   Jonathan Decter ,  Arturo Prats
Publisher:   Brill
Volume:   54
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9789004232488


Pages:   294
Publication Date:   22 June 2012
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Jonathan Decter ,  Arturo Prats
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   54
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.650kg
ISBN:  

9789004232488


ISBN 10:   9004232486
Pages:   294
Publication Date:   22 June 2012
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Introduction Jonathan P. Decter and Arturo Prats I. Literature and Art Weeping Over Rachel's Tomb: Literary Reelaborations of a Midrashic Motif in Medieval and Early Modern Spain Luis M. Giron Negron The First Murder: Picturing Polemic c. 1391 Tom Nickson Sephardic Illuminated Bibles: Jewish Patrons and Fifteenth-Century Christian Ateliers Andreina Contessa II. Jewish Exegesis Abarbanel's Exegetical Subversion of Maimonides' `Aqedah: Transforming a Knight of Intellectual Virtue into a Knight of Existential Faith James Diamond `From My Flesh I Envision God': Shem Tov Ibn Shaprut's Exegesis of Job 19:25-27 Libby Garshowitz Messianic Interpretation of the Song of Songs in Late-Medieval Iberia Maud Kozodoy III. Uses of Christian Exegesis Pro-Converso Apologetics and Biblical Exegesis Claude B. Stuczynski A Father's Bequest: Augustinian Typology and Personal Testimony in the Conversion Narrative of Solomon Halevi / Pablo de Santa Maria Ryan Szpiech IV. Liturgy and Translation The Liturgy of Portuguese Conversos Asher Salah The Relationship between Ladino Liturgical Texts and Spanish Bibles Ora (Rodrigue) Schwarzwald Translation and the Invention of Renaissance Jewish Culture: The Case of Judah Messer Leon and Judah Abravanel Aaron W. Hughes

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Jonathan Decter, Ph.D. (2002) in Medieval Jewish Studies, Jewish Theological Seminary of America, is Associate Professor and Edmond J. Safra Professor of Sephardic Studies at Brandeis University. He is author of Iberian Jewish Literature: Between al-Andalus and Christian Europe (Indiana UP, 2007), which won the Salo W. Baron Prize for best first book in Jewish Studies. Arturo Prats, Ph.D. (2004) in Semitic Philology, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, is assistant professor at Universidad Complutense de Madrid. He has published on Hebrew literature of the fifteenth century focussing on the work of the poet Shelomoh Bonafed including La disputa de Selomohh ben Reuben Bonafed con la aljama de Zaragoza (Granada 2010)

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