Demonizing the Queen of Sheba: Boundaries of Gender and Culture in Postbiblical Judaism and Medieval IslamUniversity of Chicago Press, 08.12.1993 - 281 Seiten Over the centuries, Jewish and Muslim writers transformed the biblical Queen of Sheba from a clever, politically astute sovereign to a demonic force threatening the boundaries of gender. In this book, Jacob Lassner shows how successive retellings of the biblical story reveal anxieties about gender and illuminate the processes of cultural transmission. The Bible presents the Queen of Sheba's encounter with King Solomon as a diplomatic mission: the queen comes "to test him with hard questions," all of which he answers to her satisfaction; she then praises him and, after an exchange of gifts, returns to her own land. By the Middle Ages, Lassner demonstrates, the focus of the queen's visit had shifted from international to sexual politics. The queen was now portrayed as acting in open defiance of nature's equilibrium and God's design. In these retellings, the authors humbled the queen and thereby restored the world to its proper condition. Lassner also examines the Islamization of Jewish themes, using the dramatic accounts of Solomon and his female antagonist as a test case of how Jewish lore penetrated the literary imagination of Muslims. Demonizing the Queen of Sheba thus addresses not only specialists in Jewish and Islamic studies, but also those concerned with issues of cultural transmission and the role of gender in history. |
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... Jewish Themes and Settings 102 E. The One Who Had Knowledge of the Book 104 F. Asaph Son of Berechiah 106 G. The Mightiest Name of God 109 H. Traces of Jewish Themes 112 I. Muslim Uses of the Jewish Past 115 The Transfer and Absorption ...
... Jewish Themes and Settings 102 E. The One Who Had Knowledge of the Book 104 F. Asaph Son of Berechiah 106 G. The Mightiest Name of God 109 H. Traces of Jewish Themes 112 I. Muslim Uses of the Jewish Past 115 The Transfer and Absorption ...
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... Jewish past . Eventually , the story of the queen's visit be- came the skeletal structure of a project of intercommunal relations . For in ap- propriating Jewish experience to suit their own concerns , Muslims occasioned reaction from ...
... Jewish past . Eventually , the story of the queen's visit be- came the skeletal structure of a project of intercommunal relations . For in ap- propriating Jewish experience to suit their own concerns , Muslims occasioned reaction from ...
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... Jewish , the story of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba represents a contest of will and intellect between a crafty woman ... Jews and Muslims alike held that , regardless of rank , women must submit to men in accordance with the natural ...
... Jewish , the story of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba represents a contest of will and intellect between a crafty woman ... Jews and Muslims alike held that , regardless of rank , women must submit to men in accordance with the natural ...
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... Jewish scripture as seen from the larger context of Muslim - Jewish polemics . The author also includes a useful appendix on Jewish knowledge of the Qur'an . Some technical matters : The system of transliteration from Arabic is one ...
... Jewish scripture as seen from the larger context of Muslim - Jewish polemics . The author also includes a useful appendix on Jewish knowledge of the Qur'an . Some technical matters : The system of transliteration from Arabic is one ...
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... Jewish sources . As regards the queen , it is her intelligence ; her desire for political independence ; her sagacity in dealing with men at their own game ; and above all her ability to make and enforce decisions ... Jews and 4 Introduction.
... Jewish sources . As regards the queen , it is her intelligence ; her desire for political independence ; her sagacity in dealing with men at their own game ; and above all her ability to make and enforce decisions ... Jews and 4 Introduction.
Inhalt
Biblical and Postbiblical Accounts | 9 |
B The Midrash Mishle | 11 |
C The Midrash haHefez | 13 |
D The Targum Sheni to the Book of Esther | 14 |
F The Origins of the DangerousDemonic Queen | 24 |
The Quranic Story of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba | 36 |
B Muslim Scripture and Jewish Sources | 38 |
C The Nature of the Quranic Version | 42 |
G The Mightiest Name of God | 109 |
H Traces of Jewish Themes | 112 |
I Muslim Uses of the Jewish Past | 115 |
The Transfer and Absorption of Cultural Artifacts | 120 |
A Islamizing Jewish Memorabilia | 122 |
Some Methodological Considerations | 124 |
C Cases in Point | 132 |
D Islamized Artifacts EnteringReentering Jewish Tradition | 135 |
Later Muslim Versions | 47 |
A Thalabis Account | 48 |
B The Missing Hoopoe | 49 |
C Bilqis | 50 |
D A Noble Letter | 52 |
E The Mission to Solomon | 55 |
F The Queens Visit | 57 |
G The Fate of Bilqis | 61 |
A Reading of Thalabis Solomon and the Queen of Sheba | 64 |
B The Prophets Mandate | 67 |
C The Danger of Crossing Gender Boundaries | 73 |
D The Queens Challenge to Man and Divine Order | 79 |
E Submission to Male Authority | 85 |
Universal versus Particular | 86 |
Islamizing Universal and Specifically Jewish Themes | 88 |
A The Significance of the Queens Throne | 91 |
B Muslim Markings | 93 |
D Jewish Themes and Settings | 102 |
E The One Who Had Knowledge of the Book | 104 |
F Asaph Son of Berechiah | 106 |
A Late Yemenite Version | 137 |
F Solomons Campaign against the Island King | 141 |
G Solomon and the Queen of Sheba According to Saadiah Ben Joseph | 146 |
H Recent Jewish Folklore | 153 |
Postscript | 157 |
Texts in Translation | 161 |
C The Riddles of the Midrash haHefez | 163 |
D The Targum Sheni to the Book of Esther | 165 |
E Pseudo Ben Sira on the Queens Visit | 167 |
F The Yemenite Tale of Saadiah Ben Joseph | 168 |
G Recent Jewish Folklore and Folkloric Texts | 175 |
H Various Quranic Texts | 185 |
I Thalabis Version of Sulayman and Bilqis the Queen | 187 |
J Passages from alKisai | 202 |
Abbreviations | 215 |
Notes | 217 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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