Leinen 109,00 € Verö entlicht auf Englisch. Gibt es Parodien in Talmud und Midrasch? Holger M. Zellentin untersucht, wie die Rabbis der Spätantike bestehende Texte imitieren, um komische Unterschiede zwischen Original und Parodie zu betonen. Das Ergebnis zeigt, wie selbstsicher die rabbinische Gesellschaft und ihre Literatur an den grossen Debatten des byzantinischen und des sassanidischen Reiches teilnehmen. Die rabbinischen Parodien kommentieren Themen wie Pädagogik, Alkoholabstinenz, Traumdeutung, Erbrecht, rituelle Reinheit und christlichen Triumphalismus und Askese. Die Rabbis, in intimer Konversation mit der Hebräischen Bibel, erweisen sich als kritische Neuer nder der jüdischen Tradition und als spielerische Kommentatoren von Evangelienpassagen, die für ihre christlichen Gesprächspartner von zentraler Bedeutung waren.
The Hebrew Bible formulates two sets of law: one for the Israelites and one for the gentile “residents” living in the Holy Land. Law Beyond Israel: From the Bible to the Qur’an argues that these biblical laws for non-Israelites form the historical basis of qur’anic law. The study corroborates its central claim by assessing laws for gentiles in late antique Jewish and especially in Christian legal discourse, pointing to previously underappreciated legal continuity from the Hebrew Bible to the New Testament and from late antique Christianity to nascent Islam. This volume first sketches the legal obligations that the Hebrew Bible imposes on humanity more broadly and, more specifically, on the non-Israelite residents of the Holy Land. It then traces these laws through Second Temple Judaism to the early Jesus movement, illustrating how the biblical laws for residents inform those formulated in the Acts of the Apostles. Building on this legal continuity, the study employs detailed historical and literary analyses of legal narratives in order to make three propositions. First, rabbinic laws for gentiles, the so-called Noahide Laws, while offering a more lenient interpretation than the one we find in Acts, are equally based on the biblical laws for gentile residents of the Holy Land. Second, Christians generally appreciated and even expanded the gentile laws of Acts. Third, the Qur’an remakes traditional Arabian religious practice by formulating its own distinctive approach to the biblical laws for gentiles, in close continuity with—and at times in critical distance from—late antique Jewish and especially Christian gentile law.
The second chapter focuses on prohibited and regulated impurity caused by human sexual activity. A continuous legal development can be traced that starts with the prescriptions on prohibited sexual impurity imposed on the gerim, on the non-Israelites, especially in Leviticus 18, throughout all forms of late antique Christianity, in this case even more fully shared with the rabbinic Noahide Laws, to the Qur’an. When it comes to prohibited sexual impurity, the Qur’an seems to dismiss Arabian practices and adopts a biblical model close to that of many late antique Christians. When considering the concept of regulated sexual impurity, by contrast, the Hebrew Bible, along with the Acts of the Apostles, explicates its rulings only for the Israelites, leaving their applicability to the gerim and respectively to gentile Christians open to diverging late antique interpretations. The Qur’an’s point of departure regarding regulated sexual impurity can be pinpointed at the confluence of pagan Arabian culture and the practices of those Christians who endorsed the expansive attitudes towards the Decree of the Apostles, and obeyed laws pertaining to regulated sexual impurity.
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