The Talmud in Dispute During the High Middle Ages
The Talmud in Dispute During the High Middle Ages

Author: Fidora, Alexander

Publisher: Servei de Publicacions de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Published: 2019-12-17

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 8449089476

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The Christian discovery of the Babylonian Talmud is a significant landmark in the long and complex history of anti-Jewish polemic. While the Talmudic corpus developed in the same period as early Christianity, this post-biblical text was largely unknown to the Christians. Full awareness of the Talmud among Christian authors did not arise until the late 1230s, when the Jewish convert Nicholas Donin presented a Latin translation of Talmudic fragments to Pope Gregory IX. Though the Talmud was subsequently put on trial (1240) and burnt (1241/2) in Paris, the controversy surrounding it continued over the following years, as Pope Innocent IV called for a revision of its condemnation. The textual basis for this revision is the Extractiones de Talmud, that is, a Latin translation of 1.922 Talmudic fragments. The articles in this volume shed new light on this monumental translation and its historical context. They also offer critical editions of related texts, such as Donin’s anti-Talmudic polemic. Authors of the contributions are: Wout van Bekkum, Piero Capelli, Ulisse Cecini, Enric Cortès, Óscar de la Cruz Palma, Federico Dal Bo, Alexander Fidora, Görge K. Hasselhoff, Moisés Orfali, Ursula Ragacs and Eulàlia Vernet i Pons.

Crisis and Coloniality at Europe's Margins
Crisis and Coloniality at Europe's Margins

Author: Kristín Loftsdóttir

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-12-19

Total Pages: 199

ISBN-13: 1351018248

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Crisis and Coloniality at Europe’s Margins: Creating Exotic Iceland provides a fresh look at the current politics of identity in Europe, using a crisis at the margins of Europe to shed light on the continued embeddedness of coloniality in everyday aspirations and identities. Examining Iceland’s response to its collapse into bankruptcy in 2008, the author explores the way in which the country sought to brand itself as an exotic tourist destination. With attention to the nation’s aspirations, rooted in the late 19th century, of belonging as part of Europe, rather than being classified with colonized countries, the book examines the engagement with ideas of otherness across and within Europe, as European discourses continue to be based on racialized ideas of ‘civilized’ people. With its focus on coloniality at a time of crisis, this volume contributes to our understanding of how racism endures in the present and the significance of nationalistic sentiments in a world of precariousness. Anchored in part in personal narrative, this critical analysis of coloniality, racism, whiteness and national identities will appeal to scholars across the social sciences with interests in national identity-making, European politics and race in a world characterised by crisis.

The Lighthouse and the Observatory
The Lighthouse and the Observatory

Author: Daniel A. Stolz

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-01-11

Total Pages: 331

ISBN-13: 1107196337

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This history of astronomy in Egypt reveals how modern science came to play an authoritative role in Islamic religious practice.

From Falashas to Ethiopian Jews
From Falashas to Ethiopian Jews

Author: Daniel Summerfield

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-09-25

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 1351566342

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In the light of the Israeli government's plan to halt Ethiopian immigration, this book provides original research into the transformation of the Falashas to Ethiopian Jews during the twentieth century which made them eligible for immigration into Israel, adding a new dimension to the question of 'Who is a Jew', namely the case of the 'manufactured Jew'.