The Golden Calf between Bible and Qur'an: scripture, polemic, and exegesis from late antiquity to Islam
This book explores the story of the Israelites' worship of the Golden Calf in its Jewish, Christian, and Muslim contexts, from ancient Israel to the emergence of Islam. It focuses in particular on the Qur'an's presentation of the narrative and its background in Jewish and Christian re...
| Summary: | This book explores the story of the Israelites' worship of the Golden Calf in its Jewish, Christian, and Muslim contexts, from ancient Israel to the emergence of Islam. It focuses in particular on the Qur'an's presentation of the narrative and its background in Jewish and Christian retellings of the episode from Late Antiquity. Cover -- Series page -- The Golden Calf between Bible and Qur'an: Scripture, Polemic, and Exegesis from Late Antiquity to Islam -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Lists of Figures and Tables -- Note on Style -- Introduction -- Overview of chapters -- 1: Method and Context in the Study of Bible and Qur'an: The Calf Narrative as Case Study -- Israel's idolatry at Sinai -- From Bible to Qur'an: scripture and scripturalization in Late Antiquity -- The Qur'an in context: beyond the "influence paradigm" -- Between midrash and tafsīr: exegesis and contestation -- PART I: FOUNDATIONS -- 2: Biblical Beginnings: The Calf of Sinai, the Calves of Jeroboam, -- The making of the Golden Calf in Exodus: "These are your gods, O Israel" -- The making of the making of the Golden Calf: sources and contexts -- Regulation and regression: priestly polemic and Israelite bull worship -- From cultic violation to covenantal betrayal: Deuteronomy and the invention of idolatry -- 3: Early Jewish Interpretation: An Opportunity for Repentance, a Pretext for Polemic -- The Calf episode in Second Temple Judaism -- The Septuagint -- Pseudo-Philo, Philo, Josephus -- "Let the calf make atonement for the sin of the Calf": tannaitic candor -- Reconstructing the early rabbinic view of the Calf episode -- The sin of the Calf as a second Fall? -- The Temple cult and perpetual atonement -- "Troublemakers stirred things up": tannaitic self-consciousness -- The Aqiva-Pappias debate -- The tannaitic prohibition on translation -- The sectarian threat: "heretics" and "troublemakers" -- PART II: JEWS, CHRISTIANS, ANDTHE CONTESTEDLEGACY OF ISRAEL -- 4: A Hard Yoke Upon Their Neck: Patristic Polemic and Amoraic Apologetic -- The dialectic of Jewish and Christian exegesis -- The Calf, the covenant, and the Law in patristic polemic. |
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| ISBN: | 0192593625 |