Jews and Syriac Christians: intersections across the first millenium
Cover -- Title -- Table of Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Michal Bar-Asher Siegal - Syriac Monastic Motifs in the Babylonian Talmud: The Ḥeruta Story Reconsidered (b. Qiddushin 81b) -- Adam H. Becker - Syriac Anti-Judaism: Polemic and Internal Critique -- Bar Belinitzky and Yakir Paz -...
| Summary: | Cover -- Title -- Table of Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Michal Bar-Asher Siegal - Syriac Monastic Motifs in the Babylonian Talmud: The Ḥeruta Story Reconsidered (b. Qiddushin 81b) -- Adam H. Becker - Syriac Anti-Judaism: Polemic and Internal Critique -- Bar Belinitzky and Yakir Paz - Bound and Banned: Aphrahaṭ and Excommunication in the Sasanian Empire -- Shaye J. D. Cohen - Jewish Observance of the Sabbath in Bardaiṣan's Book of the Laws of Countries -- Sidney H. Griffith - Jewish Christians and the Qur'ān: The Transit of Religious Lore in Late Antique Arabia -- Simcha Gross - A Long Overdue Farewell: The Purported Jewish Origins of Syriac Christianity -- Geoffrey Herman - Exilarch and Catholicos: A Paradigm for the Commonalities of the Jewish and Christian Experience under the Sasanians -- Richard Kalmin - Contextualizing Late Antique Rabbinic Narratives -- Naomi Koltun-Fromm - Syriac Fathers on Jerusalem -- Sergey Minov - Staring Down a Laundress: Reading Hagiographic Literature from Syria-Mesopotamia Alongside Rabbinic Writings -- Yonatan Moss - Versions and Perversions of Genesis: Jacob of Edessa, Saadia Gaon, and the Falsification of Biblical History -- Ophir Münz-Manor - Hebrew and Syriac Liturgical Poetry: A Comparative Outlook -- Jeffrey L. Rubenstein - Syriac Christian Sources and the Babylonian Talmud -- Christian Stadel - Judaeo-Syriac: Syriac Texts in Jewish Square Script -- J. Edward Walters - Anti-Jewish Rhetoric and Christian Identity in Aphrahaṭ's Demonstrations -- Robin Darling Young - The Anonymous Mēmrā on the Maccabees: Jewish Pseudepigraphon or Late Antique Festal Poem? -- Contributors -- Index. |
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| ISBN: | 3161591356 |