Jews and Syriac Christians

Der vorliegende Band enthält sechzehn Studien, die ein breites Spektrum an Themen untersuchen - von Fragen zum Ursprung bis zur Entwicklung kommunaler Grenzen, von zwischenmenschlichen Interaktionen bis zu gemeinsamen historischen Bedingungen, die Juden und syrische Christen im ersten Jahrtausend n. Chr. betraf.Aaron Michael Butts/Simcha Gross: Introduction - Michal Bar-Asher Siegal: Syriac Monastic Motifs in the Babylonian Talmud: The Heruta Story Reconsidered (b. Qiddushin 81b) - Adam H. Becker: Syriac Anti-Judaism: Polemic and Internal Critique - Bar Belinitzky/Yakir Paz: Bound and Banned: Aphrahaṭ and Excommunication in the Sasanian Empire - Shaye J. D. Cohen: Jewish Observance of the Sabbath in Bardaiṣan's Book of the Laws of Countries - Sidney H. Griffith: Jewish Christians and the Qurʾān: The Transit of Religious Lore in Late Antique Arabia - Simcha Gross: A Long Overdue Farewell: The Purported Jewish Origins of Syriac Christianity - Geoffrey Herman: Exilarch and Catholicos: A Paradigm for the Commonalities of the Jewish and Christian Experience under the Sasanians - Richard Kalmin: Contextualizing Late Antique Rabbinic Narratives - Naomi Koltun-Fromm: Syriac Fathers on Jerusalem - Sergey Minov: Staring Down a Laundress: Reading Hagiographic Literature from Syria-Mesopotamia Alongside Rabbinic Writings - Yonatan Moss: Versions and Perversions of Genesis: Jacob of Edessa, Saadia Gaon, and the Falsification of Biblical History - Ophir Münz-Manor: Hebrew and Syriac Liturgical Poetry: A Comparative Outlook - Jeffrey L. Rubenstein: Syriac Christian Sources and the Babylonian Talmud - Christian Stadel: Judaeo-Syriac: Syriac Texts in Jewish Square Script - J. Edward Walters: Anti-Jewish Rhetoric and Christian Identity in Aphrahaṭ's Demonstrations - Robin Darling Young: The Anonymous Mēmrā on the Maccabees: Jewish Pseudepigraphon or Late-Ancient Festal Poem?