David M Freidenreich
Biographic Data
| ID | 2832303 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David M Freidenreich |
| GIVEN NAMES | David M |
| FAMILY NAME | Freidenreich |
| SIGNATURE | FREIDENREICH D M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Colby College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9902-5587 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Jewish Muslims
You Still Believe Like a Jew!”
Patriarch Timothy I and Theodore bar Koni, late eighth-century members of the Church of the East, brand Muslims as “new Jews,” in Timothy’s words, on account of their refusal to accept Christian doctrines about Christ. Like many other Eastern Christians, these authors employ the discourse of anti-Judaism against Muslim targets to reinforce the faith of their Christian audiences. Timothy and Theodore, however, are the only known authors of the ini…
Muḥammad, the Monk, and the Jews
Early Muslims told a tale about Baḥīrā, a Christian monk who identified the young Muḥammad as the long-awaited prophet and warned the boy’s guardian to protect him from murderous Jews. This legend proved so popular that not only later Muslims but also Christians, Samaritans, and Jews themselves retold it in widely divergent ways. This study analyzes the foundational version of the Baḥīrā legend that appears in the Sīra of Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq (d. c…
Hell and Its Rivals
Hell, as imagined by Christians, Jews, and Muslims alike, is infinitely capacious. One will never find a “no vacancy” sign at its mouth. In this respect—among many others!—hell differs markedly from scholarship, whose value rests on a degree of expertise that cannot, unfortunately, be all-encompassing in nature. Alan Bernstein’s expertise is on full display in this volume, a sequel to The Formation of Hell: Death and Retribution in the Ancient an…
Against the Grain and Over the Line
This article distills theoretical arguments that I advance in Foreigners and Their Food, arguments relevant to a wide range of religious studies scholars. In addition, it makes the case for comparison as a method that sheds light not only on specific comparands and the class of data to which they belong but also on the very boundaries which the comparison transgresses. Through a comparison of Latin Christian and Shiʿi Islamic discourse about the …
Food‐Related Interaction Among Christians, Muslims, and Jews in High and Late Medieval Latin Christendom
Social historians of the Middle Ages can gain a richer understanding of interreligious relations by examining the ways Christians, Muslims, and Jews interacted over food. Legal and non‐legal sources from the eleventh through sixteenth centuries shed light on commercial, social, and cultural exchanges across faith communities, both in the market and at meals. These texts convey a broad spectrum of attitudes toward the food and food ways of religio…
Contextualizing Bread
Journal Article Contextualizing Bread: An Analysis of Talmudic Discourse in Light of Christian and Islamic Counterparts Get access David M. Freidenreich David M. Freidenreich * *David M. Freidenreich, Pulver Family Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies, Colby College, 4646 Mayflower Hill, Waterville, ME 04901-8846, USA. E-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Aca…
The Implications of Unbelief
The distinctively Shi ̨i conception of non-Muslims as bearers of a contagious form of impurity emerges gradually, reaching its classical form only in the 5th/11th century. Contrary to common scholarly presumptions, Q. 9.28 does not constitute the point of origin for this conception but rather serves as retroactive justification for its validity. This essay utilizes Hadīth collections and works of law from the 2nd/8th through 5th/11th centuries to…
Five Questions About Non-Muslim Meat
Muhammad ibn Abl Bakr ibn Qayyim al-Gawziyyah's Ahkam ahi al-dim mah (herein: the Ahkam) is the most extensive and, arguably, the most incisive medieval study devoted to the status of non-Muslims in Islamic law.2 Scholars of Islamic attitudes toward adherents of other religions cite the Ahkam frequently because, as one observes, it provides a handy synthesis of material that is widely scattered through the earlier li terature.3 To approach the Ah…
Sharing Meals with Non-Christians in Canon Law Commentaries, Circa 1160-1260
Canon law scholarship flourished in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, and its practitioners left a remarkable paper trail. Surviving documents capture the intellectual evolution that occurred during this formative period and offer historians a rare opportunity to trace legal development in premodern times. This article examines the evolution of laws regulating the sharing of meals with non-Christians, with particular attention to the ways in …
Restoring Justice as a Public Virtue in the Context of HIV/Aids
Comparisons Compared
The project of comparative religion, a mainstay of the academic study of religion from the time of its inception, has justifiably drawn sharp criticism from postmodernist circles for its association with the colonial and Orientalist enterprises of Western scholarship. Critics have as serted that the comparison of religion is inherently flawed because of its emphasis on similarity and minimization of differences between religious traditions, as we…
The Use of Islamic Sources in Saadiah Gaon's Tafsīr of the Torah
Saadiah Gaon's influential translation of the Torah into Arabic has long been known to contain countless "mistranslations," passages in which Saadiah consciously modifies the biblical text to conform to Arabic literary style or to his own beliefs and understanding of the Bible. Several of the modifications found in Saadiah's Tafsīr derive from Islamic sources, including Islamic terminology and phraseology, Islamic law and tradition, and the Qur'a…
Comparisons Compared
The project of comparative religion, a mainstay of the academic study of religion from the time of its inception, has justifiably drawn sharp criticism from postmodernist circles for its association with the colonial and Orientalist enterprises of Western scholarship. Critics have as serted that the comparison of religion is inherently flawed because of its emphasis on similarity and minimization of differences between religious traditions, as we…
Sharing Meals with Non-Christians in Canon Law Commentaries, Circa 1160-1260
Canon law scholarship flourished in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, and its practitioners left a remarkable paper trail. Surviving documents capture the intellectual evolution that occurred during this formative period and offer historians a rare opportunity to trace legal development in premodern times. This article examines the evolution of laws regulating the sharing of meals with non-Christians, with particular attention to the ways in …
The Implications of Unbelief
The distinctively Shi ̨i conception of non-Muslims as bearers of a contagious form of impurity emerges gradually, reaching its classical form only in the 5th/11th century. Contrary to common scholarly presumptions, Q. 9.28 does not constitute the point of origin for this conception but rather serves as retroactive justification for its validity. This essay utilizes Hadīth collections and works of law from the 2nd/8th through 5th/11th centuries to…
Food‐Related Interaction Among Christians, Muslims, and Jews in High and Late Medieval Latin Christendom
Social historians of the Middle Ages can gain a richer understanding of interreligious relations by examining the ways Christians, Muslims, and Jews interacted over food. Legal and non‐legal sources from the eleventh through sixteenth centuries shed light on commercial, social, and cultural exchanges across faith communities, both in the market and at meals. These texts convey a broad spectrum of attitudes toward the food and food ways of religio…
Contextualizing Bread
Journal Article Contextualizing Bread: An Analysis of Talmudic Discourse in Light of Christian and Islamic Counterparts Get access David M. Freidenreich David M. Freidenreich * *David M. Freidenreich, Pulver Family Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies, Colby College, 4646 Mayflower Hill, Waterville, ME 04901-8846, USA. E-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Aca…
Five Questions About Non-Muslim Meat
Muhammad ibn Abl Bakr ibn Qayyim al-Gawziyyah's Ahkam ahi al-dim mah (herein: the Ahkam) is the most extensive and, arguably, the most incisive medieval study devoted to the status of non-Muslims in Islamic law.2 Scholars of Islamic attitudes toward adherents of other religions cite the Ahkam frequently because, as one observes, it provides a handy synthesis of material that is widely scattered through the earlier li terature.3 To approach the Ah…
The Use of Islamic Sources in Saadiah Gaon's Tafsīr of the Torah
Saadiah Gaon's influential translation of the Torah into Arabic has long been known to contain countless "mistranslations," passages in which Saadiah consciously modifies the biblical text to conform to Arabic literary style or to his own beliefs and understanding of the Bible. Several of the modifications found in Saadiah's Tafsīr derive from Islamic sources, including Islamic terminology and phraseology, Islamic law and tradition, and the Qur'a…
The Use of Islamic Sources in Saadiah Gaon's Tafsīr of the Torah
Saadiah Gaon's influential translation of the Torah into Arabic has long been known to contain countless "mistranslations," passages in which Saadiah consciously modifies the biblical text to conform to Arabic literary style or to his own beliefs and understanding of the Bible. Several of the modifications found in Saadiah's Tafsīr derive from Islamic sources, including Islamic terminology and phraseology, Islamic law and tradition, and the Qur'a…
Comparisons Compared
The project of comparative religion, a mainstay of the academic study of religion from the time of its inception, has justifiably drawn sharp criticism from postmodernist circles for its association with the colonial and Orientalist enterprises of Western scholarship. Critics have as serted that the comparison of religion is inherently flawed because of its emphasis on similarity and minimization of differences between religious traditions, as we…
Sharing Meals with Non-Christians in Canon Law Commentaries, Circa 1160-1260
Canon law scholarship flourished in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, and its practitioners left a remarkable paper trail. Surviving documents capture the intellectual evolution that occurred during this formative period and offer historians a rare opportunity to trace legal development in premodern times. This article examines the evolution of laws regulating the sharing of meals with non-Christians, with particular attention to the ways in …
Restoring Justice as a Public Virtue in the Context of HIV/Aids
Five Questions About Non-Muslim Meat
Muhammad ibn Abl Bakr ibn Qayyim al-Gawziyyah's Ahkam ahi al-dim mah (herein: the Ahkam) is the most extensive and, arguably, the most incisive medieval study devoted to the status of non-Muslims in Islamic law.2 Scholars of Islamic attitudes toward adherents of other religions cite the Ahkam frequently because, as one observes, it provides a handy synthesis of material that is widely scattered through the earlier li terature.3 To approach the Ah…
The Implications of Unbelief
The distinctively Shi ̨i conception of non-Muslims as bearers of a contagious form of impurity emerges gradually, reaching its classical form only in the 5th/11th century. Contrary to common scholarly presumptions, Q. 9.28 does not constitute the point of origin for this conception but rather serves as retroactive justification for its validity. This essay utilizes Hadīth collections and works of law from the 2nd/8th through 5th/11th centuries to…
Contextualizing Bread
Journal Article Contextualizing Bread: An Analysis of Talmudic Discourse in Light of Christian and Islamic Counterparts Get access David M. Freidenreich David M. Freidenreich * *David M. Freidenreich, Pulver Family Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies, Colby College, 4646 Mayflower Hill, Waterville, ME 04901-8846, USA. E-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Aca…
Food‐Related Interaction Among Christians, Muslims, and Jews in High and Late Medieval Latin Christendom
Social historians of the Middle Ages can gain a richer understanding of interreligious relations by examining the ways Christians, Muslims, and Jews interacted over food. Legal and non‐legal sources from the eleventh through sixteenth centuries shed light on commercial, social, and cultural exchanges across faith communities, both in the market and at meals. These texts convey a broad spectrum of attitudes toward the food and food ways of religio…
Hell and Its Rivals
Hell, as imagined by Christians, Jews, and Muslims alike, is infinitely capacious. One will never find a “no vacancy” sign at its mouth. In this respect—among many others!—hell differs markedly from scholarship, whose value rests on a degree of expertise that cannot, unfortunately, be all-encompassing in nature. Alan Bernstein’s expertise is on full display in this volume, a sequel to The Formation of Hell: Death and Retribution in the Ancient an…
Against the Grain and Over the Line
This article distills theoretical arguments that I advance in Foreigners and Their Food, arguments relevant to a wide range of religious studies scholars. In addition, it makes the case for comparison as a method that sheds light not only on specific comparands and the class of data to which they belong but also on the very boundaries which the comparison transgresses. Through a comparison of Latin Christian and Shiʿi Islamic discourse about the …
You Still Believe Like a Jew!”
Patriarch Timothy I and Theodore bar Koni, late eighth-century members of the Church of the East, brand Muslims as “new Jews,” in Timothy’s words, on account of their refusal to accept Christian doctrines about Christ. Like many other Eastern Christians, these authors employ the discourse of anti-Judaism against Muslim targets to reinforce the faith of their Christian audiences. Timothy and Theodore, however, are the only known authors of the ini…
Muḥammad, the Monk, and the Jews
Early Muslims told a tale about Baḥīrā, a Christian monk who identified the young Muḥammad as the long-awaited prophet and warned the boy’s guardian to protect him from murderous Jews. This legend proved so popular that not only later Muslims but also Christians, Samaritans, and Jews themselves retold it in widely divergent ways. This study analyzes the foundational version of the Baḥīrā legend that appears in the Sīra of Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq (d. c…
Jewish Muslims
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