The history of the 'Slave of Christ': from Jewish child to Christian martyr

"The History of the 'Slave of Christ' : From Jewish Child to Christian Martyr offers the first critical editions and English translations of the two Syriac recensions of this fascinating text, which narrates the story of a young Jewish child, Asher, who after converting to Christianit...

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Hauptverfasser: Butts, Aaron Michael (VerfasserIn), Gross, Simcha (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Classical Syriac
Veröffentlicht: Piscataway, NJ Gorgias Press 2016
Schriftenreihe:Persian martyr acts in Syriac: texts and translation 6
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Zusammenfassung:"The History of the 'Slave of Christ' : From Jewish Child to Christian Martyr offers the first critical editions and English translations of the two Syriac recensions of this fascinating text, which narrates the story of a young Jewish child, Asher, who after converting to Christianity and taking the name ʿAbdā da-Mšíḥā (Arabic ʿAbd-al-Masīḥ, i.e. 'slave of the Christ') is martyred by his father Levi in a scene reminiscent of Abraham's offering of Isaac in Genesis 22. In a detailed introduction, the authors argue that the text is a fictional story composed during the early Islamic period (ca. 650-850) probably in Shigar (modern Sinjār). Building upon methodology from the study of Western Christian and Jewish texts, they further contend that the story's author constructs an imagined Jew based on the Hebrew Bible, thereby challenging the way that previous scholars have used this text as straightforward evidence for historical interactions between Jews and Christians in Babylonia at this time. This ultimately allows the authors to reevaluate the purpose of the text and to situate it in its Late Antique Babylonian context"...
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-239) and index
Beschreibung:xii, 255 Seiten 23 cm
ISBN:9781463205737

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