A Judeo-Arabic Parody of the Life of Jesus

The Toledot Yeshu Helene Narrative
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-3-16-161886-4
Verlag: Mohr Siebeck

Buch, Englisch, 246 Seiten, Gewicht: 555 g

Reihe: Texts and studies in ancient Judaism

Miriam Goldstein provides the first-ever examination of the Judeo-Arabic versions of Toledot Yeshu (TY), the notorious parody of the life of Jesus originating in Late Antiquity, as well as a full edition and translation of Judeo-Arabic TY texts from their earliest fragmentary witnesses through their early modern copies. The author illuminates the historical and literary development of the Judeo-Arabic TY texts, retelling the story of this long-lived polemical narrative with the critical inclusion of this significant Judeo-Arabic material. Goldstein considers the function of the narrative in the religiously diverse Arabic-speaking milieu and traces the existence of TY in a variety of languages in later Jewish Near Eastern story collections. In this study, the author transforms historical understandings of Toledot Yeshu and of the Near Eastern communities who read and transmitted the narrative.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Goldstein, Miriam

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Vergleichende Religionswissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Heilige & Traditionstexte: Torah, Talmud, Mischna, Halacha
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Goldstein, Miriam
Born 1976; 1999 BA, Harvard College; 2001 M.Phil, University of Cambridge; 2007 PhD, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Professor in the Department of Arabic Language and Literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.