Besmirching the Denominational Enemy Within and Outside Counter-history or Its Parody
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum
23.08.2024
Abbildungen
XXVIII, 378 p. 85 illus., 38 illus. in color.
Verlag
SpringerSeitenzahl
378
Maße (L/B/H)
21.6/15.3/2.7 cm
Gewicht
638 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-3-031-46068-5
Counter-hagiography and counter-biography besmirch foundational figures held dear by different religious, political, or social groups. Such phenomena figure prominently in the history of religion and conflicts. For example, what we know of the Mazdakite revolution in pre-Islamic Iran/Iraq comes from revilers. The anti-Judaic polemicist from ninth-century Afghanistan and Iraq,
Hiwi
(“Snake”), was actually called
Ḥəyyāwī
(still a name among Iraqi Jews). The reputation of the great Haskalah (Jewish Enlightenment) thinker Moses Mendelssohn was damaged among the Orthodox by how Haskalah extremists portrayed him in their image. In 1869, a Genoan politician, Cesare Cabella, fulminated against Esther and Mordecai. In the
Letter of Haman
in rabbinic homiletics, Jews parodized hostile representations of their sacred history. Gerson Rosenzweig parroted in his 1892 talmudic-style
Tractate
America,
anti-immigrant rhetoric from New York newspapers. Roman-age rabbis responded to claims about the protagonist of the Book of Joshua, “Joshua the Robber” as per a North African inscription early Byzantine Procopius of Caesarea alleged to have seen.
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