Pennacchietti Three Mirrors for Two Biblical Ladies

The Queen of Sheba and Susanna in the Eyes of Jews, Christians, and Muslims
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-4632-3573-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, Band 14, 152 Seiten

Reihe: Biblical Intersections

The biblical episode relating the encounter of the Queen of Sheba with Solomon and the apocryphal tale of Susanna, a Jewish woman slanderously accused of adultery by two judges and saved by Daniel, have become part of the collective imagination in West and East. These two Old Testament women have been adapted in art throughout time and space to meet the changing cultural horizons of the community. Like mirrors, various periods and modes of late-Ancient and medieval Judaism, Christianity and Islam have each, in their own way, reflected the characteristics of the great Queen and the chaste Susanna.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pennacchietti, Fabrizio Angelo

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften Altes Testament: Exegese, Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Contents (page 5)
- Foreword (page 7)
- Part I - Susanna in the Desert: Reflections of a Bible Story in Arab-Islamic Culture (page 9)
- 1 Introduction (page 9)
- 1.1 The tale of 'Susanna and the elders' in the Book of Daniel (page 10)
- 1.2 Antecedents of the tale of Susanna in folklore and mythology (page 12)
- 1.2.1 The midrash of Shemhazay and 'Aza'el (page 15)
- 1.2.2 The Islamic legend of Harut and Marut (page 17)
- 1.2.3 The Indo-European myth of Sukanya and the Heavenly Twins (page 19)
- 1.3 The Falasha variant of the tale of Susanna (page 22)
- 2 The story of Susanna in Arab-Islamic culture (page 24)
- 2.1 The Susanna of the Tazyin al-asqaq (page 24)
- 2.2 The 'Susanna' of the Thousand and One Nights (page 25)
- 2.3 the 'Susanna' of the Story of David (page 27)
- 2.4 The Story of the skull and the king (page 29)
- 3 The Story of the skull and the king translated from the Arabic (page 30)
- 4 Antecedents and parallelisms (page 41)
- 4.1 The 'hunter king' and the hunted cervid (page 43)
- 4.2 The 'Gardener king' and the Tree of Life (page 47)
- 4.3 The affair of Susanna, the young anchorite (page 55)
- 4.3.1 The Samaritan 'Susanna' (page 55)
- 4.3.2 Relationships among the various forms of the tale of Susanna (page 60)
- 4.3.3 A possible parallel in medieval Italian literature (page 63)
- 5 Epilogue (page 65)
- 5.1 The identity of the young judge (page 65)
- 5.2 The morals of the fable (page 67)
- 5.3 The hero becomes a hermit (page 68)
- 5.3.1 The legend of Jesus and the skull (page 69)
- 5.3.2 The narrative structure of the Story of the skull and the king (page 73)
- 6 The dating problem (page 75)
- 7 Conclusion (page 77)
- Part II- The Queen of Sheba, the glass floor and the floating tree-trunk (page 80)
- 1 The Queen of Sheba in the Scriptures (page 80)
- 2 Under the sign of the hoopoe (page 82)
- 3 The Jewish and Islamic version: an aetiological account (page 85)
- 3.1 Two discourteous epithets (page 87)
- 3.1.1 'The hairy woman' (page 87)
- 3.1.2 'The donkey-legged woman' (page 89)
- 4 The Christian legend: a prophetic tale (page 92)
- 5 The Queen as seen by Piero della Francesca (page 97)
- 6 The floating tree trunk (page 98)
- 7 Solomon's grotto and the hoopoe devil (page 100)
- 8 Before and after Constantine (page 105)
- Biblography (page 107)
- The story of the skull and the king (Arabic text) (page 123)