Holger Zellentin
Biographic Data
| ID | 5846007 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Holger Zellentin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Holger |
| FAMILY NAME | Zellentin |
| SIGNATURE | ZELLENTIN H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Graduate Theological Union |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0960-3679 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Banū isrāʾīl, ahl al-kitāb, al-yahūd wa-l-naṣārā
This paper argues for a new understanding of the Qur’an’s view of Jews and Christians based, firstly, on their developing role in Qur’anic discourse, and, secondly, on the Qur’an’s continuous understanding of the three designations for Jews and Christians: banū isrāʾīl, “the children of Israel,” ahl al-kitāb, “the Scripture People,” and al-yahūd wa-l-naṣārā, “the Jews and the Christians.” Whereas there is a scholarly consensus that the term ahl a…
Typology and the Transfiguration of Rabbi Aqiva (Pesiqta de Rav Kahana 4
The present essay introduces the Christian tradition of typology and its understanding of the transfiguration scene, with special emphasis on the Syriac tradition, and then revisits a Palestinian story clarifying the relationship of Moses to Rabbi Aqiva and its Babylonian retelling (Pesiqta de Rav Kahana 4:7 and BT Menahot 29b). I argue that previous treatments of both stories have overlooked two important possibilities: first, that both rabbinic…
Talmud and Christianity
Talmud and Christianity: Introduction
Adam J. Silverstein and Guy G. Stroumsa, with Moshe Blidstein, The Oxford Handbook of the Abrahamic Religions
The Qur'ān's Legal Culture
The Qur'ān, emphasizing ritual purity and the role of Jesus as giver of God's positive law, preserves aspects of an earlier Jesus movement that most Christian groups diluted or rejected. The Didascalia Apostolorum , a late ancient church order, records a significant number of the laws promulgated in the Qur'ān, but does not fully endorse them when it comes to purity. Likewise, the Didascalia' legal narratives about the Israelites and about Jesus,…
Rabbinic Parodies of Jewish and Christian Literature
Holger M. Zellentin seeks to probe how far the classical rabbis took their literary playfulness in order to advance their religious and societal causes. Building on the literary approaches to rabbinic Judaism of the past decades, this work considers the rabbis' attitudes towards their Byzantine and Sassanian surroundings. The author examines how the Talmud and Midrash in Palestine and Persia repeat previous texts with comical difference, oscillat…
How Plutarch Gained his Place in the Tosefta
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How Plutarch Gained his Place in the Tosefta
Rabbinic Parodies of Jewish and Christian Literature
Holger M. Zellentin seeks to probe how far the classical rabbis took their literary playfulness in order to advance their religious and societal causes. Building on the literary approaches to rabbinic Judaism of the past decades, this work considers the rabbis' attitudes towards their Byzantine and Sassanian surroundings. The author examines how the Talmud and Midrash in Palestine and Persia repeat previous texts with comical difference, oscillat…
The Qur'ān's Legal Culture
The Qur'ān, emphasizing ritual purity and the role of Jesus as giver of God's positive law, preserves aspects of an earlier Jesus movement that most Christian groups diluted or rejected. The Didascalia Apostolorum , a late ancient church order, records a significant number of the laws promulgated in the Qur'ān, but does not fully endorse them when it comes to purity. Likewise, the Didascalia' legal narratives about the Israelites and about Jesus,…
Typology and the Transfiguration of Rabbi Aqiva (Pesiqta de Rav Kahana 4
The present essay introduces the Christian tradition of typology and its understanding of the transfiguration scene, with special emphasis on the Syriac tradition, and then revisits a Palestinian story clarifying the relationship of Moses to Rabbi Aqiva and its Babylonian retelling (Pesiqta de Rav Kahana 4:7 and BT Menahot 29b). I argue that previous treatments of both stories have overlooked two important possibilities: first, that both rabbinic…
Talmud and Christianity
Talmud and Christianity: Introduction
Adam J. Silverstein and Guy G. Stroumsa, with Moshe Blidstein, The Oxford Handbook of the Abrahamic Religions
Banū isrāʾīl, ahl al-kitāb, al-yahūd wa-l-naṣārā
This paper argues for a new understanding of the Qur’an’s view of Jews and Christians based, firstly, on their developing role in Qur’anic discourse, and, secondly, on the Qur’an’s continuous understanding of the three designations for Jews and Christians: banū isrāʾīl, “the children of Israel,” ahl al-kitāb, “the Scripture People,” and al-yahūd wa-l-naṣārā, “the Jews and the Christians.” Whereas there is a scholarly consensus that the term ahl a…
Philosophy (6 works) · Archaeology and Historical Studies (5 works) · Theology (5 works) · History (4 works) · Religious studies (4 works) · Biblical Studies and Interpretation (3 works) · Historical and Linguistic Studies (3 works) · Judaism (3 works) · Antiquity (2 works) · Art (2 works)