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X-WR-CALNAME;VALUE=TEXT:Lecture: "Toledot Yeshu ("The Life of Jesus") among the Jews of Medieval Islamic Lands"
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SUMMARY:Lecture: "Toledot Yeshu ("The Life of Jesus") among the Jews of Medieval Islamic Lands"
DESCRIPTION:<p>	<drupal-media data-entity-type="media" data-entity-uuid="176029db-9d9a-4db3-bab0-a36e394b3fa3" alt="Goldstein Lecture" data-view-mode="hwp_large"></drupal-media></p><p>	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 <em>Toledot Yeshu ("The Life of Jesus") among the Jews of Medieval Islamic Lands.</em></p><p>	<!--break--><em>More information:</em> This talk will explore the astonishing popularity of <em>Toledot Yeshu</em>—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 <em>Toledot Yeshu</em> 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.</p><p>	<drupal-media data-entity-type="media" data-entity-uuid="b22f7835-081a-462b-ae4f-d0098414aae1" data-align="left" alt="Miriam Goldstein" data-view-mode="hwp_small"></drupal-media><strong>Miriam Goldstein </strong>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 <em>Karaite Exegesis in Medieval Jerusalem</em> (Tübingen, 2011) as well as the editor of <em>Beyond Religious Borders: Interaction and Intellectual Exchange in the Medieval Islamic World</em> (Philadelphia, 2011) and <em>Authorship in Mediaeval Arabic and Persian Literatures</em> (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 <em>Toledot Yeshu</em>. 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.</p>
LOCATION:Harvard Semitic Museum Rm 201, 6 Divinity Ave, Cambridge, MA 02138
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