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Title The Hebrew Bible in fifteenth-century Spain : exegesis, literature, philosophy, and the arts / edited by Jonathan Decter and Arturo Prats
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012

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Series Etudes sur le judaïsme médiéval ; t. 54
Études sur le judaïsme médiéval ; t. 54
Contents Preliminary Material -- Introduction / Given-Name Surname -- Weeping Over Rachel's Tomb: Literary Reelaborations of a Midrashic Motif in Medieval and Early Modern Spain / Luis M. Girón-Negrón -- The First Murder: Picturing Polemic c. 1391 / Tom Nickson -- Sephardic Illuminated Bibles: Jewish Patrons and Fifteenth-Century Christian Ateliers / Andreina Contessa -- Abarbanel's Exegetical Subversion of Maimonides' ʿAqedah: Transforming a Knight of Intellectual Virtue into a Knight of Existential Faith / James A. Diamond -- "From My Flesh I Envision God": Shem Ṭov Ibn Shaprut'̣ s Exegesis of Job 19:25-27 / Libby Garshowitz -- Messianic Interpretation of the Song of Songs in Late-Medieval Iberia / Maud Kozodoy -- 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 María / Ryan Szpiech -- 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 -- Index -- Appendix: Illustrations
Summary The articles of this volume present instantiations of the Hebrew Bible's deployment in textual and visual forms by Iberian Jewish, Christian and converso exegetes, translators, philosophers, artists, and literary authors between the anti-Jewish riots of 1391 and the Expulsion of 1492
Notes Proceedings of a conference held in Oct. 2008 in Madrid, Spain
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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SUBJECT Bible. Old Testament -- Influence -- Congresses
Bible. Old Testament fast
Subject RELIGION -- Biblical Biography -- Old Testament.
Civilization
Civilization -- Jewish influences
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Religion
SUBJECT Spain -- Civilization -- 711-1516 -- Congresses
Spain -- Civilization -- Jewish influences -- Congresses
Portugal -- Civilization -- To 1500 -- Congresses
Iberian Peninsula -- Religion -- Congresses
Subject Europe -- Iberian Peninsula
Portugal
Spain
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Decter, Jonathan P., 1971-
Prats, Arturo
ISBN 9789004232495
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