Besmirching the Denominational Enemy Within and Outside: Counter-history or Its Parody
Ephraim Nissan, "Besmirching the Denominational Enemy Within and Outside: Counter-history or Its Parody"
English | ISBN: 3031460685 | 2024 | 406 pages | EPUB, PDF | 52 MB + 41 MB
English | ISBN: 3031460685 | 2024 | 406 pages | EPUB, PDF | 52 MB + 41 MB
Counter-hagiography and counter-biography besmirch foundational figures held dear by different religious, political, or social groups. Such phenomena figure prominently in the history of religion and conflicts. For example, what we know of the Mazdakite revolution in pre-Islamic Iran/Iraq comes from revilers. The anti-Judaic polemicist from ninth-century Afghanistan and Iraq, Hiwi (“Snake”), was actually called Ḥəyyāwī (still a name among Iraqi Jews). The reputation of the great Haskalah (Jewish Enlightenment) thinker Moses Mendelssohn was damaged among the Orthodox by how Haskalah extremists portrayed him in their image. In 1869, a Genoan politician, Cesare Cabella, fulminated against Esther and Mordecai. In the Letter of Haman in rabbinic homiletics, Jews parodized hostile representations of their sacred history. Gerson Rosenzweig parroted in his 1892 talmudic-style
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