Harvey J Hames
Biographic Data
| ID | 1650113 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Harvey J Hames |
| GIVEN NAMES | Harvey J |
| FAMILY NAME | Hames |
| SIGNATURE | HAMES H J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4550-6967 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Kings and Conversion in the Thirteenth Century
The historiography of the last century has portrayed the public disputations of the thirteenth century (in Paris and in Barcelona) as conversionary in purpose. Yet, an examination of the disputations in a broader setting suggests that they have much to do with royal policy regarding the Jews, the establishment of the university in Paris, and the rise of the mendicant orders. The extant texts, in Latin and Hebrew, show that the purpose of the disp…
The Brighter Side of Medieval Inter-Religious Encounters
A Jew amongst Christians and Muslims
Solomon ibn Adret, one of the foremost Rabbis of the Jewish community in the Iberian peninsula in the late thirteenth century, wrote a treatise that engaged directly with the claims and arguments of ibn Hazm, a Muslim scholar who had been dead for some two hundred years. His preoccupation with ibn Hazm seems strange given his many other concerns such as the spread of Averroism and Christian attacks on the Jewish post-biblical texts. One of ibn Ad…
It Takes Three to Tango
Ramon Llull used what he called necessary reason to prove the truth of Christianity in general and the doctrine of the Trinity in particular. He appropriated contemporary Kabbalistic ideas about the Godhead in order to demonstrate that their reasoning implied the existence of a Trinity and that Christianity was the true faith. Solomon ibn Adret was forced to use Kabbalistic teachings to contradict Llull's arguments and showed that sefirotic image…
The limits of conversion
In a manuscript in the Harley Collection at the British Library (957), there is an account of what appears to be a case of ritual murder in Bristol, written c. 1280 but referring back to the reign of Henry II (1154-98). This account entitled in the 1808 catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts Fabula ineptissima de filio Willelmi Wallensis civis Bristolliae is far more than just another example of ritual murder, of Jewish hatred towards Christians. …
Three in one or one that is three
Cet article vise a montrer que le Sefer ha-ot, traite apocalyptique ecrit par Abraham Abulafia (1240-ca 1290/1) n'est peut-etre pas constitue d'un seul ouvrage, mais de trois, et que chacun d'entre eux correspond a une periode de son existence. Une premiere vision, datee de 1276, ouvre la carriere messianique d'Abulafia; elle donne la toile de fond des deux premieres sections; une autre vision, datee de la fin de 1285, permet de comprendre pourqu…
A Seal Within a Seal
Medieval Encounters 12,2 Also available online – www.brill.nl 1 Sefer ha-Haim, in Metzaref ha-Sechel, ed. A. Gross ( Jerusalem: n.p., 2001), 83. 2 See H. Hames, “From Calabria Cometh the Law and the Word of the Lord from Sicily: The Holy Land in the Thought of Joachim of Fiore and Abraham Abulafia,” Mediterranean Historical Review 20, no. 2 (2005): 187-99; and my forthcoming book, Like Angels on Jacob’s Ladder: Abraham Abulafia, the Franciscans a…
From Calabria Cometh the Law, and the Word of the Lord from Sicily
An anonymous Vita written in the years immediately following Joachim of Fiore's death presents him as an alter-Jeremiah or Ezekiel, a prophet of the exile. His life is described as a transmigration from the Holy Land, where he received his first revelation, to the monastery he founded in Fiore, or as a journey from exile to redemption. Calabria becomes the new Holy Land, blessed by the Holy Spirit. In contrast, the thirteenth-century Kabbalist Ab…
How do Conflict Situations Affect Our Faith Communities and Our Interreligious Relationships
In the few years of great optimism leading up to the start of the second intifada in October 2000, I was charged with organizing a large conference which was to be held at my university, the theme of which was to be perceptions of the ‘other’ in the Middle East. The conference was supposed to involve members of all three monotheistic faiths, men of the cloth, as well as politicians, diplomats, people involved in education, in mass media from the …
The Polemic of Nestor the Priest
The limits of conversion
In a manuscript in the Harley Collection at the British Library (957), there is an account of what appears to be a case of ritual murder in Bristol, written c. 1280 but referring back to the reign of Henry II (1154-98). This account entitled in the 1808 catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts Fabula ineptissima de filio Willelmi Wallensis civis Bristolliae is far more than just another example of ritual murder, of Jewish hatred towards Christians. …
Kings and Conversion in the Thirteenth Century
The historiography of the last century has portrayed the public disputations of the thirteenth century (in Paris and in Barcelona) as conversionary in purpose. Yet, an examination of the disputations in a broader setting suggests that they have much to do with royal policy regarding the Jews, the establishment of the university in Paris, and the rise of the mendicant orders. The extant texts, in Latin and Hebrew, show that the purpose of the disp…
A Jew amongst Christians and Muslims
Solomon ibn Adret, one of the foremost Rabbis of the Jewish community in the Iberian peninsula in the late thirteenth century, wrote a treatise that engaged directly with the claims and arguments of ibn Hazm, a Muslim scholar who had been dead for some two hundred years. His preoccupation with ibn Hazm seems strange given his many other concerns such as the spread of Averroism and Christian attacks on the Jewish post-biblical texts. One of ibn Ad…
It Takes Three to Tango
Ramon Llull used what he called necessary reason to prove the truth of Christianity in general and the doctrine of the Trinity in particular. He appropriated contemporary Kabbalistic ideas about the Godhead in order to demonstrate that their reasoning implied the existence of a Trinity and that Christianity was the true faith. Solomon ibn Adret was forced to use Kabbalistic teachings to contradict Llull's arguments and showed that sefirotic image…
The Polemic of Nestor the Priest
How do Conflict Situations Affect Our Faith Communities and Our Interreligious Relationships
In the few years of great optimism leading up to the start of the second intifada in October 2000, I was charged with organizing a large conference which was to be held at my university, the theme of which was to be perceptions of the ‘other’ in the Middle East. The conference was supposed to involve members of all three monotheistic faiths, men of the cloth, as well as politicians, diplomats, people involved in education, in mass media from the …
From Calabria Cometh the Law, and the Word of the Lord from Sicily
An anonymous Vita written in the years immediately following Joachim of Fiore's death presents him as an alter-Jeremiah or Ezekiel, a prophet of the exile. His life is described as a transmigration from the Holy Land, where he received his first revelation, to the monastery he founded in Fiore, or as a journey from exile to redemption. Calabria becomes the new Holy Land, blessed by the Holy Spirit. In contrast, the thirteenth-century Kabbalist Ab…
Three in one or one that is three
Cet article vise a montrer que le Sefer ha-ot, traite apocalyptique ecrit par Abraham Abulafia (1240-ca 1290/1) n'est peut-etre pas constitue d'un seul ouvrage, mais de trois, et que chacun d'entre eux correspond a une periode de son existence. Une premiere vision, datee de 1276, ouvre la carriere messianique d'Abulafia; elle donne la toile de fond des deux premieres sections; une autre vision, datee de la fin de 1285, permet de comprendre pourqu…
A Seal Within a Seal
Medieval Encounters 12,2 Also available online – www.brill.nl 1 Sefer ha-Haim, in Metzaref ha-Sechel, ed. A. Gross ( Jerusalem: n.p., 2001), 83. 2 See H. Hames, “From Calabria Cometh the Law and the Word of the Lord from Sicily: The Holy Land in the Thought of Joachim of Fiore and Abraham Abulafia,” Mediterranean Historical Review 20, no. 2 (2005): 187-99; and my forthcoming book, Like Angels on Jacob’s Ladder: Abraham Abulafia, the Franciscans a…
The limits of conversion
In a manuscript in the Harley Collection at the British Library (957), there is an account of what appears to be a case of ritual murder in Bristol, written c. 1280 but referring back to the reign of Henry II (1154-98). This account entitled in the 1808 catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts Fabula ineptissima de filio Willelmi Wallensis civis Bristolliae is far more than just another example of ritual murder, of Jewish hatred towards Christians. …
It Takes Three to Tango
Ramon Llull used what he called necessary reason to prove the truth of Christianity in general and the doctrine of the Trinity in particular. He appropriated contemporary Kabbalistic ideas about the Godhead in order to demonstrate that their reasoning implied the existence of a Trinity and that Christianity was the true faith. Solomon ibn Adret was forced to use Kabbalistic teachings to contradict Llull's arguments and showed that sefirotic image…
A Jew amongst Christians and Muslims
Solomon ibn Adret, one of the foremost Rabbis of the Jewish community in the Iberian peninsula in the late thirteenth century, wrote a treatise that engaged directly with the claims and arguments of ibn Hazm, a Muslim scholar who had been dead for some two hundred years. His preoccupation with ibn Hazm seems strange given his many other concerns such as the spread of Averroism and Christian attacks on the Jewish post-biblical texts. One of ibn Ad…
The Brighter Side of Medieval Inter-Religious Encounters
Kings and Conversion in the Thirteenth Century
The historiography of the last century has portrayed the public disputations of the thirteenth century (in Paris and in Barcelona) as conversionary in purpose. Yet, an examination of the disputations in a broader setting suggests that they have much to do with royal policy regarding the Jews, the establishment of the university in Paris, and the rise of the mendicant orders. The extant texts, in Latin and Hebrew, show that the purpose of the disp…
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