Strangers in the Land: Traveling Texts, Imagined Others, and Captured Souls in Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Traditions in Late Antique and Mediaeval Times

Miriam L. Hjälm, Ph.D. (2015) is lecturer in Eastern Christian Studies at Sankt Ignatios College, Sweden. Her publications focus on Christian Arabic translations and manuscripts and include Christian Arabic Versions of Daniel (Brill 2016), and ed. Senses of Scripture, Treasures of Tradition (Brill 2017).Marzena Zawanowska, Ph.D. (2008), University of Warsaw, is Associate Professor in the Faculty of History at that University. She has published on medieval Karaism, Karaite Bible exegesis and Judeo-Arabic tradition, including The Arabic Translation and Commentary of Yefet ben ʿEli the Karaite on the Abraham Narratives (Genesis 11:10–25:18) (Brill, 2012), and ed. The Character of David in Judaism, Christianity and Islam: Warrior, Poet, Prophet and King (Brill, 2021)

• TransliterationStrangers in the LandTraveling Texts, Imagined Others, and Captured Souls in Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Traditions in Late Antique and Mediaeval Times: an IntroductionMiriam L. Hjälm and Marzena ZawanowskaPart 1 In Quest for Timeless Meaning: The Other in Biblical Exegesis1 Blessed Is the One Who Kills Infants: “The Other” in Eastern Christian Reception of Psalm 137Miriam L. Hjälm2 The Attitude of the Early Karaites to the Converts According to Their Interpretation of the BibleYoram Erder3 The Treatment of Biblical Idols (Ar. aṣnām) in Andalusi Hebrew LexicographyJose Martinez Delgado4 The Vision of the “Other” in Menahem ha-Meiri’s Commentary on PsalmsMariano Gomez ArandaPart 2 Between Reality and Imagination: “The Other” in Documentary, Legal, and Mystical Sources5 The Career of a Jewish exilé at the Muslim Court in Medieval al-Andalus: Samuel ha-Nagid as Dhimmi in Power, Hebrew Poet and Muslim DignitaryBarbara Gryczan6 Benevolent Strangers: The Founding of Granada, Zirid Memory and Ideology of Power in the Kitāb al-tibyān of ʿAbd Allāh b. Buluqqīn b. ZīrīMateusz Wilk7 “Double Strangers”: Women’s Conversion to Judaism in the Cairo Geniza DocumentsAmir Ashur8 Absent From Its World: The Image of Fallen Soul in al-Suhrawardī’s al-Wāridāt wa-l-taqdisāt [Divine Inspirations and Sanctifications]Łukasz Piątak9 A Sharia Perspective on Inequality according to Selected Maliki Fatwas from Medieval MaghrebFilip A. JakubowskiPart 3 Recycling Sources, Constructing Traditions: “The Other and the Self” in Narratives on the Past10 The Self as the Other in the Jewish Literature of the Egyptian Diaspora in the Hellenistic Period: The Case of the Letter of AristeasAgata Grzybowska11 A Christian Away from Home: The Greek Sources of Abgar’s Legend RevisitedSergio López Calero and Israel Muñoz Gallarte12 An Idumean between Nabataeans and Romans: On the Source-Text of a Passage in Maḥūb al-Manbijī’s Kitāb al-ʿunwānJuan Pedro Monferrer-Sala13 The Exile of Cain in the Kitāb al-ʿUnwān: An Ancient Tradition on the Melkite LiteratureLourdes BonhomeIndex