Illuminated Haggadot from Medieval Spain: Biblical Imagery and the Passover Holiday
Illuminated Haggadot from Medieval Spain: Biblical Imagery and the Passover Holiday
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中世纪西班牙的发光哈加多:圣经意象和逾越节假期
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2006
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Katrin Kogman
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Katrin Kogman
For scholars interested in medieval Jewish and Christian relations in the Middle Ages, the book Illuminated Haggadot from Medieval Spain: Biblical Imagery and the Passover Holiday is a fascinating and enlightening read. Scholars who work on medieval polemical treatises derive their knowledge of Christian-Jewish interaction from the texts they read and evaluate. Their task is to not only to analyze and interpret what these words mean in their religious and social worlds, but also to try to understand why these texts arose in their own time and how they reflect on Christian-Jewish interaction in a specific time period. The focus of this work under review is on the art that appears in texts that were so central to Jewish life in the middle ages: the haggadot or the Passover seder liturgies. From an analysis of these works of spiritual art and ritual the author helps us understand in a more complete way not only the inner life of Jews during this time period, but also how Jews were reacting to Christian visual presentations of biblical passages that they both shared: Genesis and Exodus. These haggadot, which emerged as a separate text in the thirteenth century, hold a primary key for a deeper understanding for medieval Jewish life and Jewish-Christian interaction based on the passages that appear in these Passover liturgies.