Scriptures, Sacred Traditions, and Strategies of Religious Subversion

Moshe Blidstein (Herausgegeben von) Born 1982; 2014 PhD in Theology and Religious Studies from Oxford University; currently a post-doctorate research fellow at the Martin Buber Society of Fellows, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.Serge Ruzer (Herausgegeben von) Born 1950; 1996 PhD from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; teaches at the Department of Comparative Religion at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and is a Research Fellow at that University's Center for the Study of Christianity.Daniel Stökl Ben Ezra (Herausgegeben von) Geboren 1970; Studium der Religionswissenschaften, Judaistik und Theologie; 2002 Promotion; 2011 Habilitation; derzeit Forschungsprofessor an der École pratique des hautes études in Paris auf dem Lehrstuhl für Sprache, Literatur, Paläographie und Epigraphie des Hebräischen und Aramäischen vom vierten Jahrhundert v. Chr. bis zum vierten Jahrhundert n. Chr.

• Moshe Blidstein/Serge Ruzer: IntroductionPart I: AntiquityNicole Belayche: Content and, or, Context? Subversive Writing in Greek and Roman Religions - Philippe Borgeaud: Mythe et écriture. Une approche grecque (platonicienne) - Hubert Cancik/Hildegard Cancik-Lindemaier: Phaedrus on Greek Myth, Roman Religion and the Origin of Slavish Language - John Scheid: Piété, contestation et livre dans la Rome républicaine. Les épisodes de 213, 186 et 181 av. J.-C. - Sharon Weisser: Do We Have to Study the Torah? Philo of Alexandria and the Proofs for the Existence of GodPart II: Late AntiquityMoshe Blidstein: Anti-legal Exempla in Late Ancient Christian Exegesis - Gilles Dorival: Is Maryam, Sister of Aaron, the Same as Maryam, the Mother of Jesus? Quran 19:28 Revisited - Maren R. Niehoff: Colonizing and Decolonizing the Creation: A Dispute between Rabbi Hoshaya and Origen - Lorenzo Perrone: Origen Reading the Psalms: the Challenge of a Christian Interpretation - Michel Tardieu: Le conquérant et le macrobiote: un épisode de la philosophie barbare.Part III: Middle AgesSergey Minov: The Exhortation of the Apostle Peter: A Syriac Pseudepigraphon and its Monastic Context - Mark Silk: On Tolerating Religious "Others" in the Twelfth Century - Daniel Stökl Ben Ezra: The Christian Scriptures and Toledot Yeshu - Yuri Stoyanov: Subverting Scripture by Parascriptural Works in Medieval Eastern and Western Christian DualismPart IV: ModernityGiovanni Filoramo: The Power of the Spiritual Man: the Subversive Exegesis of the Historian in Gottfried Arnold's Ketzergeschichte - Aryeh Kofsky/Serge Ruzer: The Gospel according to Tolstoy: Between Nineteenth-Century Lives of Jesus, Tatian and Marcion - Zur Shalev: Apocalyptic Travelers: The Seventeenth-Century Search for the Seven Churches of Asia - Adam Silverstein: Did Haman Have a Brother? On a Deceptively Interesting Error in a Modern Persian DictionaryGuy Stroumsa: Epilogue: The Duty of Subversion