Format:
1 online resource (243 pages)
ISBN:
9781000415186
,
9781000415216
,
9781003120674
Series Statement:
Intersectional Studies of Jewish, Christian and Islamic Texts and Receptions Ser.
Content:
Intro -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Illustrations and Figures -- Contributors -- Foreword and Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The ambiguous figure of the neighbour in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic texts and receptions -- Why study the neighbor? -- Studying the "three traditions": Comparative intersectional exegesis -- From "children of Abraham" to "ambiguous neighbors -- The figure of the neighbor: Main theoretical framework -- The intersectional neighbor -- The neighbor as the monster and the destabilizing other -- The neighbor as the ambiguous Nebenmensch -- About this volume -- Neighbors near and far, facing the future -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Online sources -- Part I: Intersectional biblical neighbors -- 1. The ambiguous neighbor in the Hebrew Bible: A survey of the concept of neighborship in Hebrew Bible texts -- Introduction: The social neighbor and the spatial neighbor -- The neighborship memoirs of an academic nomad -- The ambiguity of the spatial neighbor: The stranger next door -- The rēaʿ in the Hebrew Bible -- The šākēn in the Hebrew Bible -- Robbed by your neighbors: The despoliation of Egypt in Exodus 3:22 and 11:2 -- Conclusion: The ambiguous neighbor in the Hebrew Bible -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 2. When Bethlehemites and Moabites meet: Ambiguous neighbors in the book of Ruth -- Versions of Neighbors -- Cultural imaginations of self and others -- When Bethlehemites and Moabites meet -- A Bethlehemite family showed ḥeseḏ "kindness" in Moab -- A Moabite seeking ḥēn "favor" and facing risk in the fields of Bethlehem -- The Moabite and the townswomen of Bethlehem -- Cultural imaginations of Moab in the Hebrew Bible -- Ambiguous neighbors in the book of Ruth -- Moab and Bethlehem as ambiguous neighbors -- Notes -- Literature.
Note:
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780367637835
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780367637835
Language:
English
Keywords:
Judentum
;
Christentum
;
Islam
;
Nachbar
;
Der Nächste
;
Religiöse Literatur
;
Geschichte
Author information:
Kartzow, Marianne Bjelland 1971-
