Explorations in comparative history
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Explorations in comparative history
(Publication of the Institute for Advanced Studies, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Hebrew University Magnus Press, c2009
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Description
This volume consists of a critical edition, English translation, and extensive introductory discussion of the Judaeo-Arabic commentaries on Ruth and Esther from the exegetical digest (Kitab al-bayan) of Tanhum ben Joseph ha-Yerushalmi (d. 1291 CE), the last known exegete of the "rationalistic" school who wrote in Judaeo-Arabic. Although past scholarship has tended to regard Tanhum's exegetical contribution as little more than that of a compiler-abridger, our own assessment, as explored in the introduction, is that his role was in fact much more significant. Not only does he display the critical acumen and intellectual independence of a true exegete in his own right, but he also appears to have assimilated - and hence (like Abraham ibn Ezra) mediated into the continuum of Rabbanite exegesis - certain elements of Karaite exegesis, most notably, as developer by the tenth-century Karaite litterateur Yefet ben 'Eli, the role of the mudawwin in the composition and transmission of the biblical text.
Table of Contents
- CONTENTS: Introduction
- Outlines for Comparative History Proposed by Practising Historians
- Comparative History: Methodology & Ethos
- Comparative History: The Pivot of Historiography
- The Scope of Comparison: The Roman, Spanish & Inca Empires
- The Meeting of Worlds: Did Early Modern Expansion Lead to Globalization?
- Questions of Comparability: Russian Serfdom & American Slavery
- Eighteenth-Century Globalization: Renewal & Reform in Islam
- The Modern Japanese Political System Chr(45) A Comparative View
- Globalization & the Welfare State
- The Use of Feudalism in Comparative History
- Teaching Comparative History: A Course on Christian, Muslim & Jewish Women in Medieval Times.
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