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    Thou art the man : the masculinity of David in the Christian and Jewish Middle Ages (2021)
    Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press
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    ISBN: 9780812297997
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , Illustrationen
    Edition: [Online-Ausgabe]
    Year of publication: 2021
    Series Statement: The Middle Ages Series
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Karras, Ruth Mazo, 1957 - Thou art the man
    Keywords: Masculinity Religious aspects To 1500 ; Christianity ; History ; Masculinity Religious aspects To 1500 ; Judaism ; History ; Masculinity History To 1500 ; HISTORY / Medieval ; Gender Studies ; History ; Medieval and Renaissance Studies ; Religion ; Religious Studies ; Women's Studies ; David Israel, König ; Motiv ; Europa ; Bibel ; Talmud ; Kommentar ; Volksliteratur ; Liturgie ; Kunst ; Geschichte 800-1500 ; Mann ; Männlichkeit ; Liebe ; Freundschaft ; Vaterschaft ; Sünde ; Sexualität ; Geschichte 800-1500
    Abstract: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. David His Tens of Thousands: Prowess and Piety -- Chapter 2. Surpassing the Love of Women: Love, Friendship, Loyalty Between Men -- Chapter 3. I Have Sinned Against the Lord: Sex and Penitenc -- Chapter 4. With Sacred Music upon the Harp: Creativity and Ecstasy -- Chapter 5. O My Son Absalom: Establishing a Dynasty -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
    Abstract: "How do we approach the study of masculinity in the past?" Ruth Mazo Karras asks. Medieval documents that have come down to us tell a great deal about the things that men did, but not enough about what they did specifically as men, or what these practices meant to them in terms of masculinity. Yet no less than in our own time, masculinity was a complicated construct in the Middle Ages.In Thou Art the Man, Karras focuses on one figure, King David, who was important in both Christian and Jewish medieval cultures, to show how he epitomized many and sometimes contradictory aspects of masculine identity. For late medieval Christians, he was one of the Nine Worthies, held up as a model of valor and virtue; for medieval Jews, he was the paradigmatic king, not just a remnant of the past, but part of a living heritage. In both traditions he was warrior, lover, and friend, founder of a dynasty and a sacred poet. But how could an exemplar of virtue also be a murderer and adulterer? How could a physical weakling be a great warrior? How could someone whose claim to the throne was not dynastic be a key symbol of the importance of dynasty? And how could someone who dances with slaves be noble?Exploring the different configurations of David in biblical and Talmudic commentaries, in Latin, Hebrew, and vernacular literatures across Europe, in liturgy, and in the visual arts, Thou Art the Man offers a rich case study of how ideas and ideals of masculinity could bend to support a variety of purposes within and across medieval cultures
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 161 - 293 , Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. , In English
    DOI: 10.9783/9780812297997
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    Speaking Infinities : God and Language in the Teachings of Rabbi Dov Ber of Mezritsh (2020)
    Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press
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    ISBN: 9780812297058
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (408 p)
    Edition: [Online-Ausgabe]
    Year of publication: 2020
    Series Statement: Jewish Culture and Contexts
    Keywords: Mysticism Judaism ; Language and languages Religious aspects ; Judaism ; Hasidism ; RELIGION / Judaism / General
    Abstract: A study of the life and work of 'the Maggid"—a major figure in the mystical thought of early HasidismEnshrined in Jewish memory simply as "the Maggid" (preacher), Rabbi Dov Ber Friedman of Mezritsh (1704-1772) played a critical role in the formation of Hasidism, the movement of mystical renewal that became one of the most important and successful forces in modern Jewish life. In Speaking Infinities, Ariel Evan Mayse turns to the homilies of the Maggid to explore the place of words in mystical experience. He argues that the Maggid's theory of language is the key to unpacking his abstract mystical theology as well as his teachings on the devotional life and religious practice.Mayse shows how Dov Ber's vision of language emerges from his encounters with Ba'al Shem Tov (the BeSHT), the founder of Hasidic Judaism, whose teaching put forward a vision of radical divine immanence. Taking the BeSHT's notion of God's immanence as a kind of linguistic vitality echoing in the cosmos, Dov Ber developed a theory of language in which all human tongues, even in their mundane forms, have the potential to become sacred when returned to their divine source.Analyzing homilies and theological meditations on language, Mayse demonstrates that Dov Ber was an innovative thinker and contends that, in many respects, it was Dov Ber, rather than the BeSHT, who was the true founder of Hasidism as it took root, and the foremost shaper of its early theology. Speaking Infinities offers an exploration of this introspective mystic's life, gleaned from scattered anecdotes, legends, and historical sources, distinguishing the historical personage from the figure that emerges from the composite array of textual and oral traditions that have shaped the memory of the Maggid and his legacy
    Abstract: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- A Note on Transliteration and Style -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Life of the Maggid -- Chapter 2. Sacred Words -- Chapter 3. From Speech to Silence -- Chapter 4. Letters, Creation, and the Divine Mind -- Chapter 5. The Nature of Torah and Revelation -- Chapter 6. Study and the Sacred Text -- Chapter 7. The Languages of Prayer -- Epilogue. Moving Mountains -- Appendix. The Sources: A Bibliographic Excursus -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments
    Note: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. , In English
    DOI: 10.9783/9780812297058
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    Conversion, circumcision, and ritual murder in medieval Europe (2020)
    Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press
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    ISBN: 9780812296730
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (248 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Year of publication: 2020
    Series Statement: The Middle Ages Series
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Tartakoff, Paola, 1978 - Conversion, circumcision, and ritual murder in medieval Europe
    Keywords: Antisemitism History To 1500 ; Blood accusation History To 1500 ; Christianity and other religions Judaism To 1500 ; History ; Circumcision Religious aspects To 1500 ; Christianity ; History ; Circumcision Religious aspects To 1500 ; Judaism ; History ; Conversion History To 1500 ; Judaism Relations To 1500 ; Christianity ; History ; HISTORY / Medieval ; Beschneidung ; Ritualmord ; Konversion ; Judentum ; Christentum ; Geschichte 1200-1300
    Abstract: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Note on Usage -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Christian Vulnerabilities -- Chapter 2. From Circumcision to Ritual Murder -- Chapter 3. Christian Conversion to Judaism -- Chapter 4. Return to Judaism -- Chapter 5. Contested Children -- Conclusion -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments
    Abstract: In 1230, Jews in the English city of Norwich were accused of having seized and circumcised a five-year-old Christian boy named Edward because they "wanted to make him a Jew." Contemporaneous accounts of the "Norwich circumcision case," as it came to be called, recast this episode as an attempted ritual murder. Contextualizing and analyzing accounts of this event and others, with special attention to the roles of children, Paola Tartakoff sheds new light on medieval Christian views of circumcision. She shows that Christian characterizations of Jews as sinister agents of Christian apostasy belonged to the same constellation of anti-Jewish libels as the notorious charge of ritual murder. Drawing on a wide variety of Jewish and Christian sources, Tartakoff investigates the elusive backstory of the Norwich circumcision case and exposes the thirteenth-century resurgence of Christian concerns about formal Christian conversion to Judaism. In the process, she elucidates little-known cases of movement out of Christianity and into Judaism, as well as Christian anxieties about the instability of religious identity.Conversion, Circumcision, and Ritual Murder in Medieval Europe recovers the complexity of medieval Jewish-Christian conversion and reveals the links between religious conversion and mounting Jewish-Christian tensions. At the same time, Tartakoff does not lose sight of the mystery surrounding the events that spurred the Norwich circumcision case, and she concludes the book by offering a solution of her own. She posits that Christians and Jews understood these events in fundamentally irreconcilable ways, illustrating the chasm that separated Christians and Jews in a world in which some Christians and Jews knew each other intimately
    Note: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. , In English
    DOI: 10.9783/9780812296730
    URL: https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812296730
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