The Stranger in Ancient and Mediaeval Jewish Tradition: by Geza G. Xeravits
By Geza G. Xeravits
This quantity provides chosen papers learn on the first assembly of the Society for Jewish and bible study in relevant Europe, in Piliscsaba, Hungary, February 2009. The papers examine numerous elements of the concept that ""Stranger"" in Jewish culture, from the Hebrew Bible to Mediaeval Jewish proposal. the majority of the fabric specializes in Early Jewish literature, which mirrors a radical interplay with the Hellenistic method of proposal, and the improvement of concurring Jewish interpretations of conventional values.The papers of the amount offer insightful case experiences concerning the formation of Jewish identification in various sessions of Israelite and Jewish heritage, in addition to the several attitudes to strangers, being both outsiders, or belonging to opposing sects of Judaism itself. The reader reveals essays of ancient, literary, and hermeneutical recognition; of curiosity additionally to students of assorted different types of historical and mediaeval Judaism.
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Gen 19:6-8). In Judg 21:21 the young women of Shiloh are abducted by the Benjaminites as wives, just as the nubile girls (beṯûlāh) saved alive from the ḥērem extermination of Jabesh-Gilead are given as wives to some of them (vv. 14). It is also striking that in both texts danger threatens women (not only nubile girls) in a liminal/outside location. In Judg 19 the concubine of the guest (a Levite) is put out of the house, and she is raped to death; the young, nubile daughter of the host is also offered together with her, but in the end she stays in the house unharmed.
The Heroic Tradition of Ancient Israel (ABRL), New York 2005. MOBLEY, Gregory, Samson and the Liminal Hero in the Ancient Near East (LHBOTS 453), New York/London 2006. MOSIS, Rudolf, ʿkr, in: ThWAT 6, Stuttgart 1989, 74-79. NIDITCH, Susan, War in the Hebrew Bible, New York/Oxford 1993. /Graham, Patrick M. ), The History of Israel’s Traditions. The Heritage of Martin Noth (JSOTSup 182), Sheffield 1994, 235-259. OTTOSSON, Magnus, Gilead, in: ABD 2, New York 1992. POLZIN, Robert, Moses and the Deuteronomist.
E. as condemnation of foreign practices. Yet it is striking that Jephthah, in his first reaction when facing his daughter, addresses her as if she were his enemy (Judg 11:35). 57 This military connotation of ʿkr is even more stressed by the verb applied in the previous expression, namely krʿ. The latter word is ‘commonly used of warriors felled in battle (Ps 18:40 // 2Sam 22:40; Ps 20:9; 72:9; 78:31; cf. ’58 Jephthah apparently feels defeated by his daughter as if by his enemy in battle, according to the presentation of the narrative.