Decimal Diaspora
Ten Exiles and a Medieval Construction of Jewish History
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6014363 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Carsten Lorenz Wilke (0000-0001-9785-208X, Cultura, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 8 |
| Publication date | 2022-10-14 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Hamsa (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2183-2633 • E-ISSN: 2183-2633 |
| Publisher | OpenEdition (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.4000/hamsa.2719 |
| OpenAlex | W4306290650 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 8 |
The present article reviews religious constructions of Jewish diaspora History in their long-term evolution and discusses a midrashic text that hints at a historical turning-point in the 12th century. In the Antiquity, gendered metaphors were most commonly used to characterize the troubled relations between God, the Land, and the people of Israel. Early medieval conceptions speculated about the cyclical repetition of deportation events and other calamities. That meant that that number rather than gender became the dominant organizing principle of the historical narrative in the later period. Since the medieval "Midrash of the Ten Exiles" expresses this new numerology most straightforwardly, the redactional history and literary context of this short text is the focus of this study
Aesthetics · Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Context (archaeology · Deportation · Diaspora · Immigration · Judaism · Literature · Medieval history · Medieval Literature · Middle Ages · Midrash · Narrative · Period (music · Sociology · Archaeology and Historical Studies · Biblical Studies and Interpretation · Classics · Gender Studies · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies
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Diaspora
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |