Forms of Attention: Time and Narrative in Ecphrasis -- When Size Matters: Erotics, the Epyllion, and Colluthus' Rape of Helen -- In the Beginning -- Preposterous Poetics and the Erotics of Death -- Strange Dogs: Joseph and Aseneth and The Dynamics of Transformation -- Life Forms…
"How does literary form change as Christianity and rabbinic Judaism take shape? What is the impact of literary tradition and the new pressures of religious thinking? Tracing a journey over the first millennium that includes works in Latin, Greek, Hebrew and Aramaic, this book ch…
"How does literary form change as Christianity and rabbinic Judaism take shape? What is the impact of literary tradition and the new pressures of religious thinking? Tracing a journey over the first millennium that includes works in Latin, Greek, Hebrew and Aramaic, this book ch…
This volume is dedicated to the cultural and religious diversity in Jewish communities from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Age and the growing influence of the rabbis within these communities during the same period. Drawing on available textual and material evidence, the fou…
In Beyond Faith Hamilton explores how a collection of fifteenth-century vernacular texts recorded in Hebrew points to a form of personal religious belief shaped in a century of political and social strife, reflecting knowledge of the Judeo-Andalusi philosophical tradition and em…
In Beyond Faith Hamilton explores how a collection of fifteenth-century vernacular texts recorded in Hebrew points to a form of personal religious belief shaped in a century of political and social strife, reflecting knowledge of the Judeo-Andalusi philosophical tradition and em…
Prooftexts: God and knowledge in the visin deletable -- The polemics of sacrifice: Isaac and Onuestro Padreo Abraham -- Material and translation: the Jewish tradition and fifteenth-century Humanism -- The art of memory and forgetting: the Judeo-Andalusi and scholastic traditions…
In Beyond Faith Hamilton explores how a collection of fifteenth-century vernacular texts recorded in Hebrew points to a form of personal religious belief shaped in a century of political and social strife, reflecting knowledge of the Judeo-Andalusi philosophical tradition and em…
Michelle M. Hamilton sheds light on the concerns of Jewish and converso readers of the generation before the Expulsion. Using a mid-fifteenth-century collection of Iberian vernacular literary, philosophical and religious texts (MS Parm. 2666) recorded in Hebrew characters as a l…
In Beyond Faith Hamilton explores how a collection of fifteenth-century vernacular texts recorded in Hebrew points to a form of personal religious belief shaped in a century of political and social strife, reflecting knowledge of the Judeo-Andalusi philosophical tradition and em…
