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1 online resource (243 p.) |
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Intersectional Studies of Jewish, Christian and Islamic Texts and Receptions Ser |
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Intersectional Studies of Jewish, Christian and Islamic Texts and Receptions Ser
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| Contents |
Intro -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Illustrations and Figures -- Contributors -- Foreword and Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The ambiguous figure of the neighbour in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic texts and receptions -- Why study the neighbor? -- Studying the ""three traditions"": Comparative intersectional exegesis -- From ""children of Abraham"" to ""ambiguous neighbors -- The figure of the neighbor: Main theoretical framework -- The intersectional neighbor -- The neighbor as the monster and the destabilizing other |
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The neighbor as the ambiguous Nebenmensch -- About this volume -- Neighbors near and far, facing the future -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Online sources -- Part I: Intersectional biblical neighbors -- 1. The ambiguous neighbor in the Hebrew Bible: A survey of the concept of neighborship in Hebrew Bible texts -- Introduction: The social neighbor and the spatial neighbor -- The neighborship memoirs of an academic nomad -- The ambiguity of the spatial neighbor: The stranger next door -- The rēaʿ in the Hebrew Bible -- The šākēn in the Hebrew Bible |
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Robbed by your neighbors: The despoliation of Egypt in Exodus 3:22 and 11:2 -- Conclusion: The ambiguous neighbor in the Hebrew Bible -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 2. When Bethlehemites and Moabites meet: Ambiguous neighbors in the book of Ruth -- Versions of Neighbors -- Cultural imaginations of self and others -- When Bethlehemites and Moabites meet -- A Bethlehemite family showed ḥeseḏ ""kindness"" in Moab -- A Moabite seeking ḥēn ""favor"" and facing risk in the fields of Bethlehem -- The Moabite and the townswomen of Bethlehem -- Cultural imaginations of Moab in the Hebrew Bible |
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Ambiguous neighbors in the book of Ruth -- Moab and Bethlehem as ambiguous neighbors -- Notes -- Literature -- 3. Neighbour, townsperson, and fellow creature: The regulation of inter-human relationships in Palestinian rabbinic texts -- Maintaining good neighbourly relationships -- Relationships amongst local townspeople -- Respect for other human creatures -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 4. Monsters and angels: The function and evaluation of the intersectional neighbours in the Gospels -- Introduction -- Neighbor in theory and practice -- Intersectional neighbors in the Jesus tradition |
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1 Parabolic neighbors -- The Samaritan and other male neighbors: Surprise, limit-case and the naked uncircumcised victim -- Dining and celebrating neighbors: Acceptable according to economy, status and gender -- 2 Are all synoptic groups of women necessarily neighbors? Mapping potential female neighbors -- Travelling neighbors -- Wise and foolish young, female neighbors -- 3 Intersectional neighbors who hear and rejoice -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part II: Islamic Neighbours, Near and Far |
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Description based upon print version of record |
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5. Aw qāla: 'Li-jārihi': Some observations on brotherhood and neighbourly love in Islamic tradition |
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781000415186 |
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100041518X |
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