| Series |
Religion in translation
AAR religion in translation.
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| Contents |
Part one: Studies. Chapter one: Lamentations and the mourners for Zion -- Chapter two: The Lamentations commentary of Salmon ben Yeruhim -- Chapter three: Salmon's engagement with rabbinic sources -- Chapter four: Salmon's approach to figurative language -- Chapter five: The art of the homily -- Chapter six: The hermeneutics of historical reflection -- Conclusion. -- Part two: Selected translations from the Commentary. Invocation -- Introduction -- Lamentations 1 -- Lamentations 2 -- Lamentations 3 -- Lamentations 4 -- Lamentations 5 -- Glossary of Salmon's Arabic terms. |
| Abstract |
"The emergence of the Jewish Bible commentary in the tenth century marks a turning point in Jewish intellectual history, namely, the transition from ancient rabbinic culture to the Arabized Judaism of the medieval period. This book explores a formative moment in this cultural reorientation by analyzing one of the earliest Jewish Bible commentaries. Written in Arabic in tenth-century Jerusalem, Salmon ben Yeruhim's commentary on Lamentations reveals a nuanced negotiation between the rabbinic tradition and the intellectual resources of the Islamic world. Salmon was a prominent figure among the Karaites, a Jewish movement defined by its commitments to biblical scholarship and penitential practices. For him, Lamentations is "instruction for Israel"--spiritual guidance for the Jewish community in exile--and his task is to communicate that instruction. Jewish Piety in Islamic Jerusalem explores the medieval Arabic dimensions of Salmon's project, tracing his engagement with the nascent fields of Arabic literary theory, historiography, and homiletics. The central argument of the book is that Salmon articulates a Jewish pietistic message through emergent Arabic-Islamic genres, transforming them to reflect his own religious and exegetical commitments. In this way, Salmon applies Arabic learning to the Bible at the same time that his understanding of the biblical text expands the Arabic intellectual tradition. The book advances these claims through six analytical chapters and an annotated English translation of the homilies and excursuses of Salmon's commentary."--Publisher's website. |
| General note | Includes translations in English out of the Arabic from the commentary on Lamentations by Salmon ben Yerūḥīm. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-365) and indexes. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Language | Includes some passages in Hebrew. |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2022900149 |
| ISBN | 0197639550 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 9780197639559 (hardback) |
