Psalm 45 between Abraham and Jesus: A Palestinian Rabbinic Polemic and Its Shelf Life
This article describes an interpretive shift that occurred in Roman Palestine during the amoraic period (ca. 200-650 CE). It argues that rabbis of this era and in this region began to identify parts of Psalm 45 in light of Abraham as a form of anti-Christian polemic, a way to present Abraham as the...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Pennsylvania Press
2024
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AJS review
Year: 2024, Volume: 48, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-25 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Bible. Psalmen 45
/ Judaism
/ Christianity
/ Polemics
/ Abraham, Biblical person
/ Jesus Christus
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| IxTheo Classification: | BH Judaism HA Bible |
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| Summary: | This article describes an interpretive shift that occurred in Roman Palestine during the amoraic period (ca. 200-650 CE). It argues that rabbis of this era and in this region began to identify parts of Psalm 45 in light of Abraham as a form of anti-Christian polemic, a way to present Abraham as the Jewish response to Christ. It then shows that this exegetical framework, which originated as a polemic, developed a life of its own. As late antiquity slowly transitioned into the early Middle Ages, some Jews read other parts of the psalm—and then the entire psalm—as pertaining to Abraham. |
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| ISSN: | 1475-4541 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Association for Jewish Studies, AJS review
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/ajs.2024.a926055 |