Imitating Abraham : Ritual and Exemplarity in Jewish and Christian Contexts (Jewish and Christian Perspectives Series)

Bergmann, Claudia (EDT)/ Blanton IV, Thomas (EDT)

Brill（2025/03発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 392 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004722613

Full Description

Imitating Abraham provides exciting glimpses into the reception history of the character Abraham in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, illuminating the manifold ways in which interpreters draw upon his legacy to authorize practices like sacrifice, circumcision, hospitality, feasting, prayer, and personal and corporate piety. Abraham holds surprises: his name is used in magical amulets—some published here for the first time—to ward off demons, protect cattle from illness, and even to round up runaway slaves. Researchers, students, and all interested in Biblical, Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Studies, as well as ritual and exemplarity will want to read this book.

Contents

Acknowledgments

List of Figures and Tables

Abbreviations

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Abraham, Ritual, and Exemplification

 Thomas R. Blanton IV and Claudia D. Bergmann

Part 1: Writings from the Neo-Babylonian, Persian, Hellenistic, and Roman Periods (ca. 600s BCE-100s CE)

1 "Look to Abraham and Sarah": the Motifs of Infertility and Childbirth in Genesis and Second Isaiah

 Claudia D. Bergmann and May May Latt

2 Abraham as a Model and Mediator of Worship Practices in the Genesis Apocryphon and Jubilees

 Mika S. Pajunen

3 "Look toward the Heavens and Count the Stars": Abraham the Astronomer in Second Temple and Rabbinic Judaism

 Stephen O. Smoot

4 Right Knowledge of God and the Rejection of False Religion: Abraham in Romans 1

 Karl-Wilhelm Niebuhr

5 Abraham as Exemplum in Fourth Maccabees

 Jan Willem van Henten

Part 2: Writings from the Early Byzantine / Sassanid Period (ca. 300s-700s CE)

6 "Halakic" Abraham in the Encounter with the Three Visitors

 Marcel Poorthuis

7 Abraham as Ritual Model in Rabbinic Tradition: Circumcision, Prayer, and Priesthood

 Günter Stemberger

8 Christianizing Abraham: Exemplarity in Ambrosiaster and Ambrose of Milan

 Clayton J. Killion

9 "Arise My Beloved, and Come Away": the Eros of Genesis 12 in a Late Antique Liturgical Poem

 Laura S. Lieber

10 Abraham as Model in Christian Ritual: Evidence from Late Ancient and Medieval Greek and Syriac Magic

 Michael Zellmann-Rohrer

11 Abraham as Model for Muhammad: a Survey of Some Early Christian Arabic Views

 Clare E. Wilde

Part 3: Writings from the Medieval and Modern Periods (ca. 800s-1800s CE)

12 Abraham as a Model of Hospitality in the Palaea and Cognate Literature

 Alexey Somov

13 "For I Know Him, That He Will Command His Children and His Household after Him" (Gen 18:19): Some Ideas on Abraham as a Model in Rabbinic Prayer and Ritual

 Leon Mock

14 Contradictory Readings of Genesis 22: Abraham in Wisdom of Solomon and in Voltaire

 Christoph Bultmann

15 Abraham as Ritual Model in Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling

 George Pattison

Index