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Proceedings of a conference held in Oct. 2008 in Madrid, Spain.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material -- Introduction / Given-Name Surname -- Weeping Over Rachel’s Tomb: Literary Reelaborations of a Midrashic Motif in Medieval and Early Modern Spain / Luis M. Girón-Negrón -- The First Murder: Picturing Polemic c. 1391 / Tom Nickson -- Sephardic Illuminated Bibles: Jewish Patrons and Fifteenth-Century Christian Ateliers / Andreina Contessa -- Abarbanel’s Exegetical Subversion of Maimonides’ ʿAqedah: Transforming a Knight of Intellectual Virtue into a Knight of Existential Faith / James A. Diamond -- “From My Flesh I Envision God”: Shem Ṭov Ibn Shaprut’̣ s Exegesis of Job 19:25–27 / Libby Garshowitz -- Messianic Interpretation of the Song of Songs in Late-Medieval Iberia / Maud Kozodoy -- Pro-Converso Apologetics and Biblical Exegesis / Claude B. Stuczynski -- A Father’s Bequest: Augustinian Typology and Personal Testimony in the Conversion Narrative of Solomon Halevi/Pablo de Santa María / Ryan Szpiech -- The Liturgy of Portuguese Conversos / Asher Salah -- The Relationship between Ladino Liturgical Texts and Spanish Bibles / Ora (Rodrigue) Schwarzwald -- Translation and the Invention of Renaissance Jewish Culture: The Case of Judah Messer Leon and Judah Abravanel / Aaron W. Hughes -- Index -- Appendix: Illustrations.

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The Hebrew Bible in Fifteenth-Century Spain: Exegesis, Literature, Philosophy, and the Arts investigates the relationship between the Bible and the cultural production of Iberian societies between the anti-Jewish riots of 1391 and the Expulsion of 1492. During this turbulent and transformative period, the Bible intersected with virtually all aspects of late medieval Iberian culture: its languages of expression, its material and artistic production, and its intellectual output in literary, philosophical, exegetic, and polemical spheres. The articles in this cross-cultural and interdisciplinary volume present instantiations of the Hebrew Bible’s deployment in textual and visual forms on diverse subjects (messianic exegesis, polemics, converso liturgy, Bible translation, conversion narrative, et cetera) and utilize a broad range of methodological approaches (from classical philology to Derridian analysis).