IMC 2018: Sessions
Session 228: Between Memory and Imagination, II: Jewish Engagements from Ethiopia to the Persianate World
Monday 2 July 2018, 14.15-15.45
Sponsor: | Arc Humanities Press |
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Organiser: | Alexandra F. C. Cuffel, Centrum für Religionswissenschaftliche Studien, Ruhr-Universität Bochum |
Moderator/Chair: | Irven Resnick, Department of Philosophy & Religion, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga |
Paper 228-a | The Attitude towards Christianity and Islam in the Early Judeo-Persian Bible Exegesis (Language: English) Index terms: Biblical Studies, Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Islamic and Arabic Studies |
Paper 228-b | Whose Persecution Is It Anyway?: The Death of Yazdgird in Persian, Jewish, and Syriac Christian Memory? (Language: English) Index terms: Hagiography, Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Historiography - Medieval |
Paper 228-c | The Impact of Betä Ǝsra'el (Ethiopian Jewish): Christian Interaction on the Development of Betä Ǝsra'el Holy Sites in the Sǝmen Mountains (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - Sites, Architecture - Religious, Hebrew and Jewish Studies |
Abstract | The history and representations of Jews, real or imagined, and Jewish interactions with non-Jews, while studied for western Europe, Byzantium, and parts of the the Middle East, is relatively neglected for other regions along the 'Silk Road' and routes connecting the Mediterranean and the Horn of Africa. This panel features scholars examining Jewish-Christian-Muslim and intra-Jewish, self-imaginings and encounters in the Persianate world through the Mediterranean and Arabia and their connections into Africa, in particular Ethiopia. Papers focus on how Jews related to, remembered or were remembered by others and the ways in which memory and its construction functioned in Jewish-non-Jewish encounters in these regions. |