The Religious and Spiritual Life of the Jews

of Medina
Haggai Mazuz, Bar-Ilan University

· July 2014
· ISBN: 9789004250628
· Hardback (xvi, 132 pp.)
· List price: €99.- / $120.-
· Language: English
· The Brill Reference Library of
Judaism, 38
· Imprint: BRILL
Subject
Jewish Studies › History & Culture
In The Religious and Spiritual Life of the Jews of Medina Haggai Mazuz offers an account
of the halakhic character of the Jewish community of Medina in the seventh century CE.
Making use of a unique methodology of comparison between Islamic and Jewish
sources, Mazuz convincingly argues that the Jews of Medina were Talmudic-Rabbinic
Jews in almost every respect. Their sages believed in using homiletic interpretation of
the Scriptures, as did the sages of the Talmud. On many halakhic issues, their
observations were identical to those of the Talmudic sages. In addition, they held
Rabbinic beliefs, sayings and motifs derived from the Midrashic literature.

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