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Book SynopsisThe Hebrew Bible in Fifteenth-Century Spain: Exegesis, Literature, Philosophy, and the Arts investigates the relationship between the Bible and the cultural production of Iberian societies between the anti-Jewish riots of 1391 and the Expulsion of 1492. During this turbulent and transformative period, the Bible intersected with virtually all aspects of late medieval Iberian culture: its languages of expression, its material and artistic production, and its intellectual output in literary, philosophical, exegetic, and polemical spheres. The articles in this cross-cultural and interdisciplinary volume present instantiations of the Hebrew Bible’s deployment in textual and visual forms on diverse subjects (messianic exegesis, polemics, converso liturgy, Bible translation, conversion narrative, etc.) and utilize a broad range of methodological approaches (from classical philology to Derridian analysis).
Table of ContentsIntroduction 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. Girón Negrón 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 María 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
