Religious stories in transformation: conflict, revision and reception /edited by Alberdina Houtman, Tamar Kadari, Marcel Poorthuis and Vered Tohar.
Religious stories in transformation: conflict, revision and reception /edited by Alberdina Houtman, Tamar Kadari, Marcel Poorthuis and Vered Tohar.
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, (c)2016.
- 1 online resource (xi, 486 pages) : illustrations (some color)
- Jewish and Christian perspectives series ; Volume 31 .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Storytelling and meaning: Theory and practice of narrative variants in religious texts / Transformations of ancient creation myths: -- The Adamic myth from Canaan / The development of the Adamic myth in Genesis Rabbah / First man, first twins: The origins of humankind in Zoroastrian thought / The fall of Iblis and its Enochic background / Interreligious aspects in the narrative of the burial of Adam in 'Pirkei de-Rabbi Eliezer / Transformation of Biblical stories: -- Aggadic motifs in the story of Jonah: A study of interation between religions / Jewish legal practice and piety in the Acts of Apostles: apologetics or identity marker / Bound in righteousness: variances and versions of the Aqedah story in Jewish hymnography (Piyyut) / The Biblical stories about the Prophet Elijah in early-Syriac-speaking Christianity / Sürat Yüsuf (XII) and some of its possible Jewish sources / Transformations of para-biblical stories: -- The well of Miriam and its mythological forebears / Bethlehem and the birth of the Messiah in the eyes of Byzantine Jewish storyteller: rebuke of consolation / The infallibility of the prophets and the fallible Jesus in Islam: On the transformation of a Jewisj story into an Islamic anti-Christian polemic / On marrying and divorcing a demon: Marriage and divorce themes in the Jewish, Christian, and pagan world / Ascension traditons in Jerusalem / Waiting for the harvest: trajectories of Rabbinic and "Christian" parables / Transformations of stories in modernity: -- Reading Chad Gadya through the kaleidescope of time / Zemah Zaddik by Leon of Modena: between two worlds / "We do not pray, we invent: Jews, Judaism, and Jewish mysticism in the video game 'Wolfenstein: The New Order" / Power women: the retelling of sacred narratives in an interreligious context / Part 5: -- Transformations of stories in art: -- Biblical murals in medieval Frisian churches / Sinai -- the mountain of God / Eli Yassif -- Marjo Korpel -- Alberdina Houtman -- Albert de Jong -- Tommaso Tesei -- Adiel Kadari -- Tamar Kadari -- Eyal Regev -- Wout van Bekkum -- Gerard Rouwhorst -- Meir Bar-Ilan -- Jan Willem can den Bosch -- Paul Mandel -- Marcel Poorthuis -- Margaretha Folmer -- Michael Ehrlich -- Eric Ottenheijm -- Meir Seidler -- Vered Tohar -- Frank G. Bosman and Leon Mock -- G.M. Speelman -- Gert van Klinken -- Shulamit Laderman.
In Religious Stories in Transformation: Conflict, Revision and Reception , the editors present a collection of essays that reveal both the many similarities and the poignant differences between ancient myths in Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and modern secular culture and how these stories were incorporated and adapted over time. This rich multidisciplinary research demonstrates not only how stories in different religions and cultures are interesting in their own right, but also that the process of transformation in particular deserves scholarly interest. It is through the changes in the stories that the particular identity of each religion comes to the fore most strikingly.
9789004334816
2016042112
Bible--Legends.
Jewish legends.
Storytelling--Religious aspects.
Electronic Books.
BM530 / .R455 2016
Includes bibliographies and index.
Storytelling and meaning: Theory and practice of narrative variants in religious texts / Transformations of ancient creation myths: -- The Adamic myth from Canaan / The development of the Adamic myth in Genesis Rabbah / First man, first twins: The origins of humankind in Zoroastrian thought / The fall of Iblis and its Enochic background / Interreligious aspects in the narrative of the burial of Adam in 'Pirkei de-Rabbi Eliezer / Transformation of Biblical stories: -- Aggadic motifs in the story of Jonah: A study of interation between religions / Jewish legal practice and piety in the Acts of Apostles: apologetics or identity marker / Bound in righteousness: variances and versions of the Aqedah story in Jewish hymnography (Piyyut) / The Biblical stories about the Prophet Elijah in early-Syriac-speaking Christianity / Sürat Yüsuf (XII) and some of its possible Jewish sources / Transformations of para-biblical stories: -- The well of Miriam and its mythological forebears / Bethlehem and the birth of the Messiah in the eyes of Byzantine Jewish storyteller: rebuke of consolation / The infallibility of the prophets and the fallible Jesus in Islam: On the transformation of a Jewisj story into an Islamic anti-Christian polemic / On marrying and divorcing a demon: Marriage and divorce themes in the Jewish, Christian, and pagan world / Ascension traditons in Jerusalem / Waiting for the harvest: trajectories of Rabbinic and "Christian" parables / Transformations of stories in modernity: -- Reading Chad Gadya through the kaleidescope of time / Zemah Zaddik by Leon of Modena: between two worlds / "We do not pray, we invent: Jews, Judaism, and Jewish mysticism in the video game 'Wolfenstein: The New Order" / Power women: the retelling of sacred narratives in an interreligious context / Part 5: -- Transformations of stories in art: -- Biblical murals in medieval Frisian churches / Sinai -- the mountain of God / Eli Yassif -- Marjo Korpel -- Alberdina Houtman -- Albert de Jong -- Tommaso Tesei -- Adiel Kadari -- Tamar Kadari -- Eyal Regev -- Wout van Bekkum -- Gerard Rouwhorst -- Meir Bar-Ilan -- Jan Willem can den Bosch -- Paul Mandel -- Marcel Poorthuis -- Margaretha Folmer -- Michael Ehrlich -- Eric Ottenheijm -- Meir Seidler -- Vered Tohar -- Frank G. Bosman and Leon Mock -- G.M. Speelman -- Gert van Klinken -- Shulamit Laderman.
In Religious Stories in Transformation: Conflict, Revision and Reception , the editors present a collection of essays that reveal both the many similarities and the poignant differences between ancient myths in Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and modern secular culture and how these stories were incorporated and adapted over time. This rich multidisciplinary research demonstrates not only how stories in different religions and cultures are interesting in their own right, but also that the process of transformation in particular deserves scholarly interest. It is through the changes in the stories that the particular identity of each religion comes to the fore most strikingly.
9789004334816
2016042112
Bible--Legends.
Jewish legends.
Storytelling--Religious aspects.
Electronic Books.
BM530 / .R455 2016