TY - CHAP
T1 - Mirroring Samson the martyr
T2 - reflections of Jewish-Christian relations in the North French Hebrew illuminated Miscellany
AU - Offenberg, Sara
PY - 2015/5
Y1 - 2015/5
N2 - These are the opening and closing remarks of a lament composed in memory of Rabbi Samson of Metz. His story has come down to us via this single source, which is the only extant evidence of his martyrdom, composed by Benjamin the scribe and copied by him in the London Miscellany, British Library Add. MS 11639, also known as The North French Hebrew Miscellany,2 produced in northern France sometime between 1278 and 1280.3 Although earlier scholars studied the story of Samson of Metz, they never considered it in relation to other texts in the manuscript or to the images.4 In this study, I address this lament against the background of the other texts and images in London Miscellany, with a specific focus on one of the illuminations in the manuscript, portraying the biblical Samson and the Lion and in light of Jewish-Christian medieval relations.
AB - These are the opening and closing remarks of a lament composed in memory of Rabbi Samson of Metz. His story has come down to us via this single source, which is the only extant evidence of his martyrdom, composed by Benjamin the scribe and copied by him in the London Miscellany, British Library Add. MS 11639, also known as The North French Hebrew Miscellany,2 produced in northern France sometime between 1278 and 1280.3 Although earlier scholars studied the story of Samson of Metz, they never considered it in relation to other texts in the manuscript or to the images.4 In this study, I address this lament against the background of the other texts and images in London Miscellany, with a specific focus on one of the illuminations in the manuscript, portraying the biblical Samson and the Lion and in light of Jewish-Christian medieval relations.
KW - 400-1499 Medieval period
KW - British Library (MS Add. 11639)
KW - French literature
KW - Hebrew language literature
KW - Jewish-Christian relations
KW - Samson
KW - illuminated manuscripts
KW - manuscript study
KW - miscellanies
KW - prose
UR - https://uli.nli.org.il/discovery/search?query=isbn,exact,9781137287199&tab=LibraryCatalog&search_scope=MyInstitution&vid=972NNL_ULI_C:MAIN
U2 - 10.1057/9781137317582_14
DO - 10.1057/9781137317582_14
M3 - فصل
SN - 9781137287199
SN - 9781349449606
T3 - New Middle Ages
SP - 203
EP - 216
BT - Jews and Christians in Thirteenth-Century France
A2 - Baumgarten, Elisheva
A2 - Galinsky, Yehuda Dov
A2 - Galinsky, Judah D.
ER -