Polemical Aspects in an Early Judeo-Persian Bible Exegesis - The Commentary on the Story of Ḥannah (RNL Yevr.-Arab. I 4608)
The article discusses the attitude towards Christians, Muslims, and the “foreign sciences” based on one of the only extant polemical texts written in Early Judeo-Persian—a passage from an unpublished commentary on story of Ḥannah preserved in the National Library of Russia (RNL Yevr.-Arab. I 4608)....
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Ruhr-Universität Bochum
[2018]
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Entangled Religions
Year: 2018, Volume: 6, Pages: 162-200 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Judeo-Persian language
/ Religious literature
/ Bible
/ Exegesis
/ Islam
/ Interfaith dialogue
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RelBib Classification: | AX Inter-religious relations BH Judaism HD Early Judaism |
Further subjects: | B
Early Judeo-Persian
B Karaite B Yefet ben ʿEli B Polemics B Bible exegesis B Judeo-Arabic |
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Summary: | The article discusses the attitude towards Christians, Muslims, and the “foreign sciences” based on one of the only extant polemical texts written in Early Judeo-Persian—a passage from an unpublished commentary on story of Ḥannah preserved in the National Library of Russia (RNL Yevr.-Arab. I 4608). In addition, the article attempts to define the relation of this commentary to the broader intellectual environment of the medieval Jewish world. A close examination of this passage reveals a possible connection to Karaite exegetical work written in Judeo-Arabic during the tenth century, particularly those of Yefet ben ʿEli. Therefore, the article may serve as a case study of intellectual contact and transmission of knowledge between different Jewish groups in the Islamicate world. |
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ISSN: | 2363-6696 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Entangled Religions
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.13154/er.v6.2018.162-200 |