Crossing confessional boundaries exemplary lives in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic traditions

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Renard, John, 1944- (Author)
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California University of California Press [2020]
Series:S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Metaphor, method, and the three "sources" of hagiographic narrative
  • Part one. Geographies shared
  • Historical/anthropological perspectives
  • Part two. Hagiographies compared
  • literary perspectives: form, content, and function
  • Part three. Dramatis personae: history, authority, and community