The Exodus Narrative and Divine Warfare in the Dura-Europos Synagogue

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents V
3. Introduction 1
4. The Way Out of Vassalage – The Exodus Narrative (Ex 1–14) and Ancient International Law 15
5. The Exodus Narrative and Divine Warfare in the Dura-Europos Synagogue 29
6. Through Water and Stone: The Brescia Sarcophagus Crossing of the Red Sea 49
7. “Prolific Writing”: Retracing a Desert Palimpsest in the South Sinai 77
8. Bewegung in der Altdeutschen Exodus als Heilsempfang und Übersetzung 93
9. Purim Like Yom Kippurim: Between the Texts and Images of the London Miscellany and R. Eleazar the Preacher’s Commentary on Exodus 109
10. The Crossing of Boundaries and Liminality in the Rabbinic Aggadot on the Death of Moses and on “Those to Die in the Wilderness”: Analogous Aspects 131
11. Between Heaven and Earth: The Illustration of the Death of Moses in Rashid al-Din’s Jami al-Tawarikh (World History) 145
12. The Prophet Muhammad’s Visionary Journey to Jerusalem – a Spiritual Exodus 163
13. The Paradigm of a Second Exodus in Jewish Tradition 183
14. „Du hast die Greuel gesehen…“. Zum Exodus als ästhetischer Unterscheidungskraft 199
15. Bibliography 223
16. Index 245
17. Photo Credits 253