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Jewish Piety in Islamic Jerusalem: The Lamentations Commentary of Salmon Ben Yeruhim

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The first Jewish Bible commentaries were written in Arabic, in medieval Islamic cities like Baghdad and Jerusalem. Jewish Piety in Islamic Jerusalem explores the construction of a new Jewish spirituality within these texts, focusing on the Lamentations commentary of Salmon ben Yeruhim. Salmon considers Lamentations to be a source of pious and ritual instruction for the Jewish community in exile. He reinterprets the Bible and traditional rabbinic teachings with the scholarly tools of his era--Arabic-Islamic models of ...

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Jewish Piety in Islamic Jerusalem: The Lamentations Commentary of Salmon Ben Yeruhim 2023, Oxford University Press, USA

ISBN-13: 9780197639559

Hebrew

Hardcover