Sharing and Hiding Religious Knowledge in Early Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta, Clare Wilde, Mladen Popović

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN:
  9783110643732
  9783110595710
• eBook ISBN:
  9783110593662
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Sciences sociales
• Subtopic: Critique littéraire juive

Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - Tension, Transmission, Transformation (JCIT) brings together innovative volumes exploring the reception and mediation of ideas and practices in the three monotheistic traditions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, from antiquity to the twenty-first century. Monographs, collected works, text editions, and bibliographic databases address their intertwining relations in various historical and geographical contexts. The series is intentionally interdisciplinary, inviting proposals across disciplines dealing with at least two of these three religions. Among the research areas to be studied are, for example, Greek, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic, Latin, and Ottoman cultural spheres; the Enlightenment and modernity in various contexts; imperialism, colonialism, postcolonialism, and globalization. Attention is given to exegesis and intertextuality, political models and patterns of social order, spiritual symbols and images, scholarly interactions and mystical experiences. The series is relevant to scholars as well as to those interested and engaged in interreligious exchange.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Acknowledgments
• Contents
• Introduction
• 1 Do Not Disperse the Collection! Motivations and Strategies for Protecting Cuneiform Scholarship in the First Millennium BCE
• 2 Multilingualism, Multiscripturalism, and Knowledge Transfer in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Graeco-Roman Judaea
• 3 Sharing and Hiding Religious Knowledge in the Book of Jubilees
• 4 The Torah Between Revelation and Concealment in Rabbinic Traditions Pertaining to the Conquest of the Land of Canaan
• 5 Alexandria, Diaspora, Politeuma and Patrioi Nomoi: The Sharing and Hiding of Jewish Identity
• 6 Ancient Greek Patterns of Knowledge Transmission and their Continuity in Gnostic Esotericism
• 7 The Sign of Socrates, the Sign of Apollo, and the Signs of Christ: Hiding and Sharing Religious Knowledge in the Gospel of John – A Contrapuntal Reading of John’s Gospel and Plato’s Dialogues
• 8 “They Wish to Extinguish the Light of God with Their Mouths” (Qurʾān 9:32): A Qurʾānic Critique of Late Antique Scholasticism?
• 9 Techniques for Guarding and Restricting Esoteric Knowledge in the Ismaili Daʿwa during the Fatimid Period
• Author Index
• Sources Index