Turn It Again

by Delany, Sheila

• ISBN13: 9781556354427
• ISBN10: 1556354428
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-05-01
• Publisher: Wipf & Stock Pub

Summary

Originally published as a special issue of Exemplaria, these essays deserve a much wider audience. They deal with Jewish studies and the medieval historian; rabbinic ecclesiology and the synods of Nicaea and Yavneh; Jewish women martyrs; sexual politics and marriage; late-medieval Castile; nation and miscegenation; cultural hybridity; Kabbalistic anthropology. The authors are widely published scholars and critics in various fields of Jewish Studies. The volume will be valuable to many scholars, teachers, and students. The essay open up so many interesting avenues of inquiry that they will enlighten and challenge not only specialists in Jewish studies but also scholars, critics, students, and teachers of medieval literature and Jewish literature, medieval history and culture, women's studies, and religious studies. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Jewish Studies and the Medieval Historian	p. 7
A Tale of Two Synods: Nicaea, Yavneh, and Rabbinic Ecclesiology	p. 20
"Turn it and turn it again": Culture and Talmud Interpretation	p. 59
Jewish Women Martyrs: Changing Models of Representation	p. 97
Ontology, Alterity, and Ethics in Kabbalistic Anthropology	p. 119
Sexual Politics in a Medieval Hebrew Marriage Debate	p. 145
Alonso de Cartagena: Nation, Miscegenation, and the Jew in Late-Medieval Castile	p. 172
Cultural Hybridity, Cultural Subversion: Text and Image in the Alba Bible, 1422-33	p. 190
Women, Demons and the Rabbi's Son: Narratology and "A Story from Worms"	p. 213
Contributors	p. 233
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