Language:
French
Year of publication:
2023
Titel der Quelle:
Medieval Encounters; Jewish, Christian and Muslim Culture in Confluence and Dialogue
Angaben zur Quelle:
29,2-3 (2023) 179-195
Keywords:
Rachel In rabbinical literature
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Bible Criticism, interpretation, etc., Christian
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Judaism Relations
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Christianity
Abstract:
The article focuses on the figure of Rachel and the various modes of appropriation of the matriarch in a Christian context. This case study allows me to observe the circulation of a biblical type in the context of asymmetrical intercultural relations. This paper does not aim to sketch a history of the technical means of this circulation, but to show that the latter depends on the mutability of the figure of Rachel, that is to say on its capacity to assume different meanings in various contexts and sources. Like other biblical figures, Rachel was the subject of a struggle for appropriation between Jews and Christians in the first centuries of our era. In the Carolingian period, Christian exegesis turned her into the typus Ecclesiae; in the Gregorian period, she became mater Ecclesia, and constituted an “ecclesiological image,” like the Virgin. In some Christian sources, she is even called “virgin.” Thus, Rachel is “Marianized” in the majority Christian culture, which is not without effect on Jewish conceptions of Rachel from the eleventh century on.
DOI:
10.1163/15700674-12340161
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