The wiles of women/the wiles of men : Joseph and Potiphar's wife in ancient Near Eastern, Jewish, and Islamic folklore / / Shalom Goldman
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| Autore: |
Goldman Shalom
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| Titolo: |
The wiles of women/the wiles of men : Joseph and Potiphar's wife in ancient Near Eastern, Jewish, and Islamic folklore / / Shalom Goldman
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| Pubblicazione: | Albany, : State University of New York Press, 1995 |
| Descrizione fisica: | xxxiii, 189 p. : ill |
| Disciplina: | 398/.35 |
| Soggetto topico: | Jewish legends - History and criticism |
| Legends - Middle East - History and criticism | |
| Middle Eastern literature - Relation to the Old Testament | |
| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [169]-177) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Intro -- Between Jerusalem and Benares -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- 1. Introduction: Judaism and Hinduism: Cultural Resonances -- 2. The Love and Hate of Hinduism in the Work of Jewish Scholars -- Part One: Historical Encounters -- 3. Lexical Borrowings in Biblical Hebrew from Indian Languages as Carriers of Ideas and Technical Concepts -- 4. Abraham and the Upanishads -- 5. Between Jews and Greeks: The Indian Model -- 6. A Hindu Response to the Written Torah -- 7. Yom Kippur: The Festival of Closing the Doors -- Part Two: Cultural Resonances -- 8. Veda and Torah: The World Embodied in Scripture -- 9. From Dharma to Law -- 10. Union and Unity in Hindu Tantrism -- 11. Union and Unity in Kabbalah -- 12. Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook and Sri Aurobindo: Towards a Comparison -- Contributors -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Focusing on gender issues, this book compares and contrasts the treatment of the Potiphar's Wife motif--in which a woman makes vain overtures to a man and then accuses him of attempting to force himself upon her--in ancient Near Eastern, Jewish, and Islamic folklore. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The wiles of women |
| ISBN: | 9781438404318 |
| 143840431X | |
| 9780585046129 | |
| 0585046123 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910966597303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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