Writing Religious, Transcultural, Gendered Identities and Alterities in the Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean
Beyond his undeniable importance as a writer and philosopher, Ramon Llull (c. 1232-1315) devoted some of his works (mainly in the last years of his live) to preaching. According to Llull’s point of view, preaching was part of his Logic System, so his sermons are mainly based in logic and rational arguments rather than auctoritates…
(1255-1340) Pupil of Solomon ben Adret, he wrote the “Kad ha-Ḳemaḥ” containing discourses and dissertations that can be considered as sermons. Links: Sefer Kad ha-Kemah at Europeana Editions: Breit, Lemberg (eds.), Kad ha-Ḳemaḥ 1880 Torah Commentary: Midrash Rabbeinu Bachya. Translated and annotated by Eliyahu Munk. Urim Pubns; 2 edition (April 2003) Bibliografía: Bettan, Israel, Studies in…
Some of his works (such as the Hegyon ha-Nefesh and the Megillat ha-Megalleh) remind of the structure and oratory of sermons. According to Joseph Dan (1986, 26), about the Hegyon ha-Nefesh, “Bar Hijja’s book is the first Hebrew independent homiletical work written in Europe”. Editions WIGODER (ed.), Hegyon ha-Nefesh. jerusalem, 1972. GUTTMAN, Julius (ed.), Sefer…
(died 1264) He wrote a Letter of Repentance (Iggeret ha-Teshuvah) Editions: Jonah of Girona, The Gates of Repentance (bilingual hebrew-english). Jerusalem – New York: Feldheim, 1976 Bibliography: SHROCK, Abe Tobie, Jonah Ben Abraham of Gerona. E . Goldston, 1948. Septimus, Bernard, «Piety and power in Thirteenth-century Catalonia», in Studies in Medieval Jewish History and Literature,…
ILAN, Nahem, «Between an oral sermon and a written commentary: a consideration of Rabbi Joseph ben Shoshan’s polemic in his Avot Commentary», Anuario de Estudios medievales, 42/1 (2012), p. 183-199. (PDF)
(1313-1375). Chief minister of Nasrid Granada. Works by Ibn al-Khatib: Historia de los reyes de la Alhambra. Universidad de Granada, 2011. (Spanish translation). Bibliography: ARIÉ, Rachel, «Lisān al-Dīn ibn al-Khaṭīb, quelques aspects de son oeuvre», Atti del Terzo Congresso di Studi Arabi e Islamici (Nápoles, 1967), 69-81. DEL MORAL, Celia, Ibn al-Khatib y su tiempo….
(1333-1390). Altough born in the town of Ronda, he spent much of his live in the African territories of the Almohad Empyre. Edited works by Ibn Abbad of Ronda: RENARD, John, ed., Ibn ‘Abbad of Ronda: Letters on the Sufi Path. Paulist Press, 1998. Bibliography: JONES, Linda G., “Ibn ‘Abbad of Ronda’s Sermon on the…
Manuscripts: Rabat, al-Khizana al_malikiyya, ms. 4070. Khutab ibn Marzuq. Vid Jones , p. 99-100, 113-123 Bibliography: VIGUERA MOLINS, María jesús, El Musnad de Ibn Marzuq. edición, traducción y estudio: tesis doctoral, extracto. Madrid, Universidad Complutense, 1973. «El Musnad de Ibn Marzuq», Miscelánea Comillas: Revista de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales, vol. 32, n. 60 (1974), p….
Beyond an important phisician, there is an extant sermon by Hasdai Cresques RAVITSKY, A., Crescas’ Sermon on the Passover and Studies on His Philosophy [Hebrew], Jerusalem, 1988.
(c. 1420 – 1494) Rabbi in Zamora, Tarragona and Fraga, he wrote the Aḳedat YiẓḦaḳ, a very influencial book in Jewish homiletics, first published in Salonica in 1522. HELLER-WILENSKY, Sarah, The philosophy of Isaac Arama in the framework of philonic philosophy (R. Yitschak Arama we-Mishnato). Jerusalem 1956 PERL, Chaim, The medieval Jewish mind: the religious…