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Turn It Again: Jewish Medieval Studies and Literary Theory
Originally published as a special issue of Exemplaria, these essays deserve a much wider audience. They deal with Jewish studies and the medieval historian, rabbinic ecclesiology and the synods of Nicaea and Yavneh, Jewish women martyrs, sexual politics and marriage, late-medieval Castile, nation and miscegenation, cultural hybridity, and Kabbalistic anthropology. The authors are widely published scholars and critics in various fields of Jewish studies. The volume will be valuable to many scholars, teachers, and students. The essays open up so many interesting avenues of inquiry that they will enlighten and challenge not only specialists in Jewish studies but also scholars, critics, students, and teachers of medieval literature and Jewish literature, medieval history and culture, women's studies, and religious studies.
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Turn It Again: Jewish Medieval Studies and Literary Theory
Originally published as a special issue of Exemplaria, these essays deserve a much wider audience. They deal with Jewish studies and the medieval historian, rabbinic ecclesiology and the synods of Nicaea and Yavneh, Jewish women martyrs, sexual politics and marriage, late-medieval Castile, nation and miscegenation, cultural hybridity, and Kabbalistic anthropology. The authors are widely published scholars and critics in various fields of Jewish studies. The volume will be valuable to many scholars, teachers, and students. The essays open up so many interesting avenues of inquiry that they will enlighten and challenge not only specialists in Jewish studies but also scholars, critics, students, and teachers of medieval literature and Jewish literature, medieval history and culture, women's studies, and religious studies.
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Turn It Again: Jewish Medieval Studies and Literary Theory

Turn It Again: Jewish Medieval Studies and Literary Theory

Turn It Again: Jewish Medieval Studies and Literary Theory

Turn It Again: Jewish Medieval Studies and Literary Theory

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Originally published as a special issue of Exemplaria, these essays deserve a much wider audience. They deal with Jewish studies and the medieval historian, rabbinic ecclesiology and the synods of Nicaea and Yavneh, Jewish women martyrs, sexual politics and marriage, late-medieval Castile, nation and miscegenation, cultural hybridity, and Kabbalistic anthropology. The authors are widely published scholars and critics in various fields of Jewish studies. The volume will be valuable to many scholars, teachers, and students. The essays open up so many interesting avenues of inquiry that they will enlighten and challenge not only specialists in Jewish studies but also scholars, critics, students, and teachers of medieval literature and Jewish literature, medieval history and culture, women's studies, and religious studies.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781725219830
Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
Publication date: 05/01/2007
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 234
File size: 116 MB
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About the Author

Sheila Delany is Professor of English Emerita at Simon Fraser University. Her many books, articles, essays, and reviews helped open up Anglophone medieval studies, especially in Chaucer, to modern critical theory, gender-oriented work, and class-based historicism.
Sheila Delany is Emerita at Simon Fraser University. Her many books,
articles, essays and reviews helped open up Anglophone medieval studies,
especially in Chaucer, to modern critical theory, gender-oriented work, and
class-based historicism.

Table of Contents


Introduction     1
Jewish Studies and the Medieval Historian     7
A Tale of Two Synods: Nicaea, Yavneh, and Rabbinic Ecclesiology     20
"Turn it and turn it again": Culture and Talmud Interpretation     59
Jewish Women Martyrs: Changing Models of Representation     97
Ontology, Alterity, and Ethics in Kabbalistic Anthropology     119
Sexual Politics in a Medieval Hebrew Marriage Debate     145
Alonso de Cartagena: Nation, Miscegenation, and the Jew in Late-Medieval Castile     172
Cultural Hybridity, Cultural Subversion: Text and Image in the Alba Bible, 1422-33     190
Women, Demons and the Rabbi's Son: Narratology and "A Story from Worms"     213
Contributors     233
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