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Nisse, Ruth,

Jacob's shipwreck : diaspora, translation, and Jewish-Christian relations in medieval England / Ruth Nisse. - 1 online resource

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Josephus, Jerusalem, and the martyrs of medieval England -- Diaspora without end and the renewal of epic -- A fox among fish? : Berechiah ha-Naqdan's translations -- Pleasures and dangers of conversion : Joseph and Aseneth -- The testaments of the twelve patriarchs in the shadow of the ten lost tribes.

"A study of how Jewish and Christian writers of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries rewrite, translate, and circulate ancient texts, primarily the post-biblical literature of the late antique and early medieval periods. The project focuses on these hybrid medieval Latin and Hebrew texts at the point when they enter into either dialogue or disputation with each other over religious and geographic identities in England and Northern France; this dynamic is especially evident during the period of the Crusades. Some of the wide variety of texts and genres include medieval Latin and Hebrew reworkings of Josephus' Jewish War, the Anglo-French Play of Adam, and the Latin "Romance" of the patriarch Joseph's Egyptian wife, Aseneth"--


In English.

ISBN: 9781501708312 1501708317 9781501708329 1501708325 1501703072 9781501703072

Standard No.: 10.7591/9781501708329 doi

Source: 22573/ctt1pbj6qx JSTOR

LCCN: 2016048248

Subjects--Chronological Terms:
To 1500

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Judaism--Relations--Christianity.
Christianity and other religions--Judaism.
Intellectual life--Religious aspects--Judaism.
Intellectual life--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Multilingualism--History--England--To 1500.
Hebrew literature--History and criticism--Early works to 1800.
Latin literature--History and criticism--Early works to 1800.
Judaïsme--Relations--Christianisme.
Christianisme--Relations--Judaïsme.
Vie intellectuelle--Aspect religieux--Judaïsme.
Vie intellectuelle--Aspect religieux--Christianisme.
Littérature hébraïque--Histoire et critique--Ouvrages avant 1800.
Littérature latine--Histoire et critique--Ouvrages avant 1800.
RELIGION--Christian Life--Social Issues.
RELIGION--Christianity--General.
LITERARY CRITICISM--Medieval.
Intellectual life--Religious aspects--Judaism
Intellectual life--Religious aspects--Christianity
Christianity
Hebrew literature
Interfaith relations
Judaism
Latin literature
Multilingualism

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
England--Church history--1066-1485.
Angleterre--Histoire religieuse--1066-1485.
England

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.
Church history
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Early works
History

LC Class. No.: BM535

Dewey Class. No.: 261.2/609420902