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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Frank RiessPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Weight: 0.635kg ISBN: 9781138314092ISBN 10: 1138314099 Pages: 212 Publication Date: 28 March 2019 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsList of maps and plates; Acknowledgements; Permissions; List of abbreviations; Chronology of events; Overture; 1 God’s gift; 2 Father and sons; 3 The Messiah who never was; 4 What the emir saw; 5 Córdoba relics and the archbishop’s letter; 6 The Talmud and the Academy; 7 The answer of Maimonides and Judah Halevi; 8 Afterlives; Coda; Bibliography; IndexReviewsThis erudite and engaging reconstruction of the life of Bodo/Eleazar situates its elusive protagonist at the intersection of Christian, Muslim, and Jewish worlds in flux, providing a sweeping account of the political and religious transformations of the ninth and tenth centuries and shedding new light on the meanings of inter-religious conversion. - Paola Tartakoff, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey This erudite and engaging reconstruction of the life of Bodo/Eleazar situates its elusive protagonist at the intersection of Christian, Muslim, and Jewish worlds in flux, providing a sweeping account of the political and religious transformations of the ninth and tenth centuries and shedding new light on the meanings of inter-religious conversion. - Paola Tartakoff, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey This is a nuanced and well-written study of Bodo/Eleazar, a ninth-century Christian convert to Judaism. As the first book dedicated to him and his journey from the Carolingian empire to the caliphate of Cordoba, it will be of great interest to scholars of medieval religious history, literature, and Jewish-Christian relations. Riess draws on a wide array of evidence, including archival documents, poetry, letters, and contemporary polemics to paint a fine-grained portrait of Bodo/Eleazar's life and times. The richness of the historical account and attentive reading of relevant sources make this a valuable new study of an extraordinary yet overlooked figure. - Ryan Szpiech, University of Michigan ‘Scholars interested in the nature of conversion in the early Middle Ages will find this book stimulating’ - Ruth Mazo Karras, Reading Religion 'This erudite and engaging reconstruction of the life of Bodo/Eleazar situates its elusive protagonist at the intersection of Christian, Muslim, and Jewish worlds in flux, providing a sweeping account of the political and religious transformations of the ninth and tenth centuries and shedding new light on the meanings of inter-religious conversion' - Paola Tartakoff, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey 'This is a nuanced and well-written study of Bodo/Eleazar, a ninth-century Christian convert to Judaism. As the first book dedicated to him and his journey from the Carolingian empire to the caliphate of Cordoba, it will be of great interest to scholars of medieval religious history, literature, and Jewish-Christian relations. Riess draws on a wide array of evidence, including archival documents, poetry, letters, and contemporary polemics to paint a fine-grained portrait of Bodo/Eleazar’s life and times. The richness of the historical account and attentive reading of relevant sources make this a valuable new study of an extraordinary yet overlooked figure' - Ryan Szpiech, University of Michigan Author InformationFrank Riess is an Honorary Research Fellow at Birkbeck College, London. His monograph Narbonne and its Territory in Late Antiquity: From the Visigoths to the Arabs was published in 2013. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |