IMC 2024: Sessions

Session 602: Lost and Found in Translatio?, II: Exegetical Encounters and Exchanges between Jews and Non-Jews in Medieval Eurasia and Africa

Organiser:	Alexandra Cuffel, Centrum für Religionswissenschaftliche Studien, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Moderator/Chair:	Alexandra Cuffel, Centrum für Religionswissenschaftliche Studien, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Paper 602-a	Black/Beautiful: The Polemical Uses of a Biblical Verse (Language: English) Miri Rubin, School of History, Queen Mary University of London Index terms: Biblical Studies and Hebrew and Jewish Studies
Paper 602-b	Byzantium Writes Back: Jewish Byzantine Exegesis as Counter-Narrative (Language: English) Saskia Dönitz, Seminar für Judaistik, Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main Index terms: Biblical Studies, Byzantine Studies and Hebrew and Jewish Studies
Abstract	Medieval Jews from various lands shared information about their own language(s) and exegetical traditions and sought out those of other groups. Sometimes these exegetical exchanges were voluntary, friendly sharing of information, at others they were highly polemical and served as forms of demarcation or resistance. Their functions and meanings often shifted as they moved from one cultural-religious context to another. The papers in this session will examine these exchanges and geographic movement and resulting cultural transformations of exegesis, biblical tales and polemic, both as evidence of voluntary interaction between Jews and various non-Jewish communities, and as contributors to or results of crisis between Jews and their neighbors.