Religionswissenschaft und Judaistik

Publikationen der Mitarbeiter*innen - Publications by Faculty Members

2023

  • Zellentin, Holger M. “Zwischen Bibel und Byzanz: „Verderben auf der Erde“ (fasād fī l-arḍ) und die koranische Strafgesetzgebung.“ In Normativität – Religion - Mobilität. Edited by Bernhard Sven Anuth, Michael Droege, and Stephan Dusil. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2023, 113-45. Link

  • Zellentin, Holger M. “‘Honour with Silence the Words of Your Creator’: Moses’ Silence in bMenaḥot 29b in Light of its Jewish and Christian Context.” In Syriac Theology: Past and Present. Edited by Martina Aras, Charbel Rizk, and Klaus von Stosch. Leiden: Brill/Schöningh, 183-208. Open Access Download

2022

  • Zellentin, Holger M. Law Beyond Israel. From the Bible to the Qur'an. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. Open Access download

  • Morgenstern, Matthias. Die große Genesis-Dichtung.Juden und Christen im Gespräch über das erste Buch der Bibel im Midrasch Genesis Rabba. Leiden: Brill | Schöningh, 2022. Link

  • Zellentin, Holger M. “Scriptural Hermeneutics and Purity Laws in the Clementine Homilies: Mainstream or Marginal, Progressive or Conservative, Jewish or Christian?.” In Negotiating Identities: Conflict, Conversion, and Consolidation in Early Judaism and Christianity (200 BCE–600 CE). Edited by Karin Hedner Zetterholm, Anders Runesson, Cecilia Wassén and Magnus Zetterholm. Coniectanea Biblica; Lanham: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2022, 423-454. Link

  • Zellentin, Holger M. “Law in the Medinan Qur’an: The Case of Biblical Incest Law and its Qur’anic Re-Iteration.” In Unlocking the Medinan Qur’an. Edited by Nicolai Sinai. Leiden: Brill, 2022, pp. 315-389.  Open Access download

  • Lehmhaus, Lennart. "Talmudic Torment: Late Antique Jewish Texts on Pain and Suffering Between Medicine, Martyrdom, and Askesis." Journal of Early Christian History 12,1 (2022): 52-79. Link

  • Lehmhaus, Lennart. "Lore and Order? - Rabbinic Lists and Epistemology." In Forms of List-Making: Epistemic, Literary, and Visual Enumeration. Edited by Anne Rüggemeier et al.; New York: Palgrava Macmilillian, 2022, pp. 53-80. Link

 

2021

  • Lehmhaus, Lennart, ed. Defining Jewish Medicine. Transfers of Medical Knowledge in Premodern Jewish Cultures and Traditions. SFB 980 series Episteme in Bewegung 8. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2021. (Open Access Download) 

  • Zellentin, Holger M. “Beyond Ring Composition: A Comparison of Formal Features in Sūrat al-ʿAlaq (Q 96) and Bavli Bava Batra 8a.” In Structural Dividers in the Qur’an. edited by Marianna Klar. Abingdon: Routledge, 2021, 54-91. (Open Access Download)

  • Zellentin, Holger M. “One Letter Yud shall not Pass Away from the Law”: Matthew 5:17 to Shabbat 116a-b.” in Religious Identities in Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages: Walking Together & Parting Ways. Edited by Ilkka Lindstedt, Nina Nikki, and Riikka Tuori. Leiden: Brill, 2021, 204-258. (Open Access Download)

  • Lehmhaus, Lennart. “Rabbinic Perceptions and Representations of Pain and Suffering.” In Pain in Biblical Texts and Other Materials of the Ancient Mediterranean. Edited by Michaela Bauks and Saul M. Olyan. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 2021, 211-238. (Link)

  • Lehmhaus, Lennart. “Moral Exegesis? – Hermeneutic Approaches and Exegetical Strategies in Seder Eliyahu (Zuta).” In Representing Jewish Thought. Studies in Honour of Ada Rappoport-Albert. Edited by Agata Paluch, in collaboration with Lukas Mühlethaler. Leiden: Brill, 2021, 156-185. (Link)

  • Lehmhaus, Lennart. "Defining of defying Jewish medicine: old problems and new questions." In Defining Jewish Medicine. Transfer of Medical Knowledge in Premodern Jewish Cultures and Traditions. Edited by Lennart Lehmhaus.Episteme in Bewegung. Beiträge zur einer transdisziplinären Wissensgeschichte, 8. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2021, 3-26. (Open Access Download)

  • Lehmhaus, Lennart. "The academic quest for the history of "Jewish medicine" - a surveyof the field." In Defining Jewish Medicine. Transfer of Medical Knowledge in Premodern Jewish Cultures and Traditions. Edited by Lennart Lehmhaus.Episteme in Bewegung. Beiträge zur einer transdisziplinären Wissensgeschichte, 8. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2021, 27-55. (Open Access Download)

  • Lehmhaus, Lennart. "Medical knowledge in premodern Jewish cultures and traditions - a select bibliography." In Defining Jewish Medicine. Transfer of Medical Knowledge in Premodern Jewish Cultures and Traditions. Edited by Lennart Lehmhaus.Episteme in Bewegung. Beiträge zur einer transdisziplinären Wissensgeschichte, 8. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2021, 77-89. (Open Access Download)

  • Lehmhaus, Lennart (with M. Gehlmann und F. Quenstedt). “Performing Knowledge Economies: Changing and Exchanging Goods in Pre-Modern Ritual Communities.“ in Wissensoikonomien. Ordnung und Transgression in vormodernen Kulturen. Edited by Nikolas Pissis, Nora Schmidt, and Gyburg Uhlmann. Episteme in Bewegung. Beiträge zur einer transdisziplinären Wissensgeschichte, 18. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2021, 229–258. (Open Access Download)

 

2020

  • Michels, Evi. "Yiddish Toledot Yeshu Manuscripts from the Netherlands." In Toledot Yeshu in Context. Edited by Daniel Barbu and Yaacov Deutsch. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2020, 231-262. (Link)

  • Michels, Evi. "Early Yiddish Theater Performances in Amsterdam." In Yiddish Theater. Edited by Marion Aptroot. Amsterdam Yiddish Symposium 13; Amsterdam: Menasseh ben Israel Instituut voor Joodse Studies, 7–37. (Link)

  • Lehmhaus, Lennart. "Medicine and Healing | Judaism | Rabbinic Judaism." In Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception (EBR), Volume 18. Edited by Barry Dov Walfish et al. Berlin: De Gruyter,2020. (Link)

2019

  • Zellentin, Holger M., ed. The Qur’an’s Reformation of Judaism and Christianity: Return to the Origins. Routledge Studies in the Quran; Abingdon/New York: Routledge, 2019. (Link)

  • Zellentin, Holger M. “Rabbi Lazarus and the Rich Man: A Talmudic Parody of the Christian Hell (Yerushalmi Hagiga 2.2, 77d and Sanhedrin 6.9, 23c).” In Knowledge and Profanation: Transgressing the Boundaries of Religion in Premodern Scholarship. Edited by Asaph Ben-Tov and Martin Mulsow. Leiden: Brill, 2019, 23-94. (Link)

  • Zellentin, Holger M. “The Synchronic and the Diachronic Qurʾān: Sūrat Yā Sīn, Lot’s People, and the Rabbis.” In The Making of Religious Texts in Islam: The Fragment and the Whole. Edited by Asma Hilali and S. R. Burge. Berlin: Gerlach Press, 2019, 111-172. (Link)

  • Zellentin, Holger M. “Gentile Purity Law from the Bible to the Qur’an: The Case of Sexual Purity and Illicit Intercourse.” In The Qurʾān’s Reformation of Judaism and Christianity: Return to the Origins. Edited by Holger Zellentin. Abingdon/New York: Routledge, 2019, 115-215. (Link)

  • Zellentin, Holger M. “The Qur’an and the Reformation of Judaism and Christianity.” In The Qurʾān’s Reformation of Judaism and Christianity: Return to the Origins. Edited by Holger Zellentin. Abingdon/New York: Routledge, 2019, 1-22. (Link)

  • Zellentin, Holger M. “Q96 Sūrat al-‘Alaq Between Philology and Polemics: A (Very) Critical Assessment of Günter Lüling’s Ur-Qurʾān.” In Die Koranhermeneutik von Günter Lüling. Edited by George Tamer. Judaism, Christianity, and Islam – Tension, Transmission, Transformation 9; Berlin: De Gruyter, 2019, 159-185. (Link)

  • Lehmhaus, Lennart. “Authorship and Authority – patterns of change in Seder Eliyahu, Pirqe deRabbi Eliezer and the Alphabet of Ben Sira in their Geonic and early Islamicate contexts.” In Torah Is a Hidden Treasure: Proceedings of the Midrash Section, Society of Biblical Literature, vol. 8. Edited by Rivka Ulmer und W. David Nelson; Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2019, 99–149. (Link)

  • Lehmhaus, Lennart. “Bodies of Tradition – (re)constructing medical expertise and knowledge of bodies in late ancient Jewish texts”, in: Finding, Inheriting or Borrowing? Construction and Transfer of Knowledge about Man and Nature in Antiquity and the Middle Ages, Edited by Jochen Althoff, Dominik Berrens, and Tanja Pommerening. Bielefeld: transcript, 2019, 123-166. (Open Access Download)

2018

  • Morgenstern, Matthias und Annie Noblesse-Rocher (Hgg.): Andreas Osiander, Ob es wahr und glaublich sei ..., Eine Widerlegung der judenfeindlichen Ritualmordbeschuldigung. Studien zu Kirche und Israel. Kleine Reihe (SKI.KR), Band 2, Leipzig: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, 2018. Zum Verlag/ To Publisher's Website

 

2015-2017

  • Morgenstern, Matthias. Martin Luther. Von den Juden und ihren Lügen. Neu bearbeitet und kommentiert. Mit einem Geleitwort von Landesbischof Prof. Dr. Heinrich Bedford-Strohm. Berlin: Berlin University Press, 2017. Zum Verlag/ To Publisher's Website