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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... doubt , reassured that the Queen of Sheba had chosen Solomon , of all men , to be her opponent . His heralded successes with women , concubines and royal ladies alike ; his unique knowledge and intelli- gence ; and more important yet ...
... doubt , reassured that the Queen of Sheba had chosen Solomon , of all men , to be her opponent . His heralded successes with women , concubines and royal ladies alike ; his unique knowledge and intelli- gence ; and more important yet ...
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... doubt , Jewish and Muslim women admired the queen's intelli- gence , perhaps even her pluck , but would they have been enthusiastic about her competing openly with men or in seeking an active role in the public sphere ? Or , to the ...
... doubt , Jewish and Muslim women admired the queen's intelli- gence , perhaps even her pluck , but would they have been enthusiastic about her competing openly with men or in seeking an active role in the public sphere ? Or , to the ...
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... doubt , the material dealt with here will interest any number of specialists in Judaica and Islamic studies , particularly scholars of the ancient and medieval world . But it should also attract scholars more generally concerned with ...
... doubt , the material dealt with here will interest any number of specialists in Judaica and Islamic studies , particularly scholars of the ancient and medieval world . But it should also attract scholars more generally concerned with ...
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... doubt that in the long run broadly based interdisciplinary studies will be widely acclaimed as a way of better understanding the diverse peoples and cultures of the Near East , Jews and Muslims among them . For the moment , there is for ...
... doubt that in the long run broadly based interdisciplinary studies will be widely acclaimed as a way of better understanding the diverse peoples and cultures of the Near East , Jews and Muslims among them . For the moment , there is for ...
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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