#  Lecture: "Toledot Yeshu ("The Life of Jesus") among the Jews of Medieval Islamic Lands" 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **September 23, 2019** 

 04:00PM - 06:30PM EDT 

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 **Harvard Semitic Museum Rm 201, 6 Divinity Ave, Cambridge, MA 02138**  



 

 



 

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 The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations warmly invites you to attend an upcoming public lecture with Dr. Miriam Goldstein of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, entitled *Toledot Yeshu ("The Life of Jesus") among the Jews of Medieval Islamic Lands.*

 *More information:* This talk will explore the astonishing popularity of *Toledot Yeshu*—a parody of the life of Jesus, first attested in Late Antiquity in Aramaic—among the Arabic-speaking Jews of the medieval Islamic world. Presenting *Toledot Yeshu* as a product of medieval Judeo-Arabic literature and as a Jewish narrative shared and exchanged between the Near East, the Mediterranean and Europe, it will illuminate sustained Jewish interest in the work for more than a millennium and a half in the Near East, as well as the significance of this enduring appeal for understanding Jewish-Christian-Muslim relations in the Islamic milieu.

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**Miriam Goldstein** is associate professor of Arabic Language and Literature and chair of the Department of Arabic Language and Literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her research focuses on medieval Judeo-Arabic literature and relations between Jews, Christians, and Muslims in the medieval Arabic-speaking world. She is the author of *Karaite Exegesis in Medieval Jerusalem* (Tübingen, 2011) as well as the editor of *Beyond Religious Borders: Interaction and Intellectual Exchange in the Medieval Islamic World* (Philadelphia, 2011) and *Authorship in Mediaeval Arabic and Persian Literatures* (Jerusalem, 2019). She has published numerous articles on Arabic and Judeo-Arabic literature, directs Minerva Foundation and DFG-funded projects focusing on the Judeo-Arabic manuscript collections of the Russian National Library, and is currently researching the Near Eastern versions of *Toledot Yeshu*. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, she studied at Harvard College and held a Marshall Fellowship at the University of Cambridge before completing her doctorate at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

 

 



 

 

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