“Oil, which shall not quit my head”: Jewish-Christian Interaction in Eleventh-century Baghdad

The last influential head of the Pumbadithan Academy in Baghdad, R. Hayya Gaʾon (939–1038), requested his Sicilian student R. Maṣliaḥ ben Eliah al-Baṣaq to inquire with the Nestorian Patriarch (Catholicos) about the Syriac definition of a word in Psalms (141:5). Upon R. Maṣliaḥ’s protests, R. Hayya...

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Main Author: Dubovick, Yosaif (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Ruhr-Universität Bochum [2018]
In: Entangled Religions
Year: 2018, Volume: 6, Pages: 95-123
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Hai Ben Sherira, Geonim 939-1038 / Peshitta / Interpretation of / Bagdad / Judaism / Christianity / Interfaith dialogue / Intellectual history 1000-1100
IxTheo Classification:BH Judaism
KBL Near East and North Africa
Further subjects:B Nestorian Patriarch (Catholicos)
B Geonic Literature
B Peshitta
B Targum
B R. Hayya Gaʾon
B Jewish- Christian interaction
B R. Maṣliaḥ ben Eliah of Sicily
B Syriac
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