Esperanza Alfonso
Biographic Data
| ID | 1459718 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Esperanza Alfonso |
| GIVEN NAMES | Esperanza |
| FAMILY NAME | Alfonso |
| SIGNATURE | ALFONSO E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1387-5810 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Jewish exegesis and a vernacular translation of the Hebrew Bible
San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Real Biblioteca, MS. I.i.8 (=E8) and MS. I.i.6 (=E6) are complementary parts of an almost complete Bible, translated from Latin, and transmitting a Castilian version likely produced in the first half of the thirteenth century. Unlike the remaining books in this two-volume Bible, the Psalter's heading indicates that the Psalms were translated from Hebrew, by Hermannus Allemanus, a scholar of German origin who took part …
El corpus de glosas vernáculas (le‘azim) en los comentarios de Ya‘ăqoḇ al-Ŷieni (s. XIV)
El término hebreo la‘az aparece en textos hebreos medievales para designar, de forma general, cualquier lengua distinta del hebreo, y de manera más específica, las varias lenguas vernáculas europeas. En relación con esta segunda acepción, más restringida, los le‘azim (pl. de la‘az) representan breves notas en lengua vernácula, que explican palabras y locuciones hebreas, y aparecen entre las líneas, en los márgenes o intercaladas en el propio text…
Translating the Hebrew Bible in Medieval Iberia
In Translating the Hebrew Bible in Medieval Iberia Esperanza Alfonso and Javier del Barco offer an edition and comprehensive study of the first Hebrew-vernacular biblical glossary-commentary produced in medieval Iberia that is known to date.
Patronage, Production, and Transmission of Texts in Medieval and Early Modern Jewish Cultures
In between cultures
This paper focuses on a fragmentary commentary on Proverbs that was included within a thirteenth-century anonymous codex produced in the Iberian Peninsula. My study brings under close scrutiny the author’s exegetical strategies, the sources he drew from, and the impact the commentary had on subsequent generations of exegetes. The commentary’s profuse recourse to Romance glosses ( leʿazim ) sheds light on the use of Romance in the learning and tea…
Medieval portrayals of the ideal woman
The final twenty-two verses of the biblical book of Proverbs (31:10–31) are written in the form of a complete alphabetic acrostic from Aleph to Taw and offer a detailed description of the ideal woman, who is portrayed as a capable and industrious wife. This distinct literary unit had a particularly fruitful life in post-biblical times. In this essay, I offer a glimpse into the history of its interpretation, specifically focusing on late medieval …
El patronazgo en las sociedades islámicas. Presentación
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Islamic Culture Through Jewish Eyes
Islamic Culture Through Jewish Eyes analyzes the attitude towards Muslims, Islam, and Islamic culture as presented in sources written by Jewish authors in the Iberian Peninsula between the tenth and the twelfth centuries. By bringing the Jewish attitude towards the "other" into sharper focus, this book sets out to explore a largely overlooked and neglected question – the shifting ways in which Jewish authors constructed communal identity of Musli…
A Hebrew Penitential Poem (Tokha ah) in the Macabre Style
© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2008 DOI: 10.1163/138078507X254668 A Hebrew Penitential Poem ( Tokhah ̣ ah ) in the Macabre Style 1 Arturo Prats Real Colegio Complutense [email protected] Esperanza Alfonso Universidad Complutense [email protected] Abstract Hidden in a miscellaneous manuscript housed in El Escorial Library in Madrid lies an anonymous, undated Hebrew poem. Using a combination of tercets and quatrains, the poem’s unknown aut…
A Hebrew Penitential Poem (Tokhahah) in the Macabre Style
Hidden in a miscellaneous manuscript housed in El Escorial Library in Madrid lies an anonymous, undated Hebrew poem. Using a combination of tercets and quatrains, the poem's unknown author describes in every possible detail the corruption his body will undergo after death. This article reconstructs the history of this literary theme—the description of bodily corruption—within the Jewish, Christian and Muslim traditions. Building upon that evidenc…
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Islamic Culture Through Jewish Eyes
Islamic Culture Through Jewish Eyes analyzes the attitude towards Muslims, Islam, and Islamic culture as presented in sources written by Jewish authors in the Iberian Peninsula between the tenth and the twelfth centuries. By bringing the Jewish attitude towards the "other" into sharper focus, this book sets out to explore a largely overlooked and neglected question – the shifting ways in which Jewish authors constructed communal identity of Musli…
A Hebrew Penitential Poem (Tokha ah) in the Macabre Style
© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2008 DOI: 10.1163/138078507X254668 A Hebrew Penitential Poem ( Tokhah ̣ ah ) in the Macabre Style 1 Arturo Prats Real Colegio Complutense [email protected] Esperanza Alfonso Universidad Complutense [email protected] Abstract Hidden in a miscellaneous manuscript housed in El Escorial Library in Madrid lies an anonymous, undated Hebrew poem. Using a combination of tercets and quatrains, the poem’s unknown aut…
A Hebrew Penitential Poem (Tokhahah) in the Macabre Style
Hidden in a miscellaneous manuscript housed in El Escorial Library in Madrid lies an anonymous, undated Hebrew poem. Using a combination of tercets and quatrains, the poem's unknown author describes in every possible detail the corruption his body will undergo after death. This article reconstructs the history of this literary theme—the description of bodily corruption—within the Jewish, Christian and Muslim traditions. Building upon that evidenc…
El patronazgo en las sociedades islámicas. Presentación
No disponible
Medieval portrayals of the ideal woman
The final twenty-two verses of the biblical book of Proverbs (31:10–31) are written in the form of a complete alphabetic acrostic from Aleph to Taw and offer a detailed description of the ideal woman, who is portrayed as a capable and industrious wife. This distinct literary unit had a particularly fruitful life in post-biblical times. In this essay, I offer a glimpse into the history of its interpretation, specifically focusing on late medieval …
In between cultures
This paper focuses on a fragmentary commentary on Proverbs that was included within a thirteenth-century anonymous codex produced in the Iberian Peninsula. My study brings under close scrutiny the author’s exegetical strategies, the sources he drew from, and the impact the commentary had on subsequent generations of exegetes. The commentary’s profuse recourse to Romance glosses ( leʿazim ) sheds light on the use of Romance in the learning and tea…
Patronage, Production, and Transmission of Texts in Medieval and Early Modern Jewish Cultures
Translating the Hebrew Bible in Medieval Iberia
In Translating the Hebrew Bible in Medieval Iberia Esperanza Alfonso and Javier del Barco offer an edition and comprehensive study of the first Hebrew-vernacular biblical glossary-commentary produced in medieval Iberia that is known to date.
El corpus de glosas vernáculas (le‘azim) en los comentarios de Ya‘ăqoḇ al-Ŷieni (s. XIV)
El término hebreo la‘az aparece en textos hebreos medievales para designar, de forma general, cualquier lengua distinta del hebreo, y de manera más específica, las varias lenguas vernáculas europeas. En relación con esta segunda acepción, más restringida, los le‘azim (pl. de la‘az) representan breves notas en lengua vernácula, que explican palabras y locuciones hebreas, y aparecen entre las líneas, en los márgenes o intercaladas en el propio text…
Jewish exegesis and a vernacular translation of the Hebrew Bible
San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Real Biblioteca, MS. I.i.8 (=E8) and MS. I.i.6 (=E6) are complementary parts of an almost complete Bible, translated from Latin, and transmitting a Castilian version likely produced in the first half of the thirteenth century. Unlike the remaining books in this two-volume Bible, the Psalter's heading indicates that the Psalms were translated from Hebrew, by Hermannus Allemanus, a scholar of German origin who took part …
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