TY - BOOK AU - Nisse,Ruth TI - Jacob's shipwreck: diaspora, translation, and Jewish-Christian relations in medieval England SN - 9781501708329 AV - BM535 U1 - 261.2/609420902 23 PY - 2017/// CY - Ithaca PB - Cornell University Press KW - Judaism KW - Relations KW - Christianity KW - Christianity and other religions KW - Intellectual life KW - Religious aspects KW - Multilingualism KW - England KW - History KW - To 1500 KW - Hebrew literature KW - History and criticism KW - Early works to 1800 KW - Latin literature KW - RELIGION KW - Christian Life KW - Social Issues KW - bisacsh KW - General KW - LITERARY CRITICISM KW - Medieval KW - Church history KW - 1066-1485 KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Josephus, Jerusalem, and the martyrs of medieval England -- Diaspora without end and the renewal of epic -- A fox among fish? : Berechiah ha-Naqdan's translations -- Pleasures and dangers of conversion : Joseph and Aseneth -- The testaments of the twelve patriarchs in the shadow of the ten lost tribes N2 - "A study of how Jewish and Christian writers of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries rewrite, translate, and circulate ancient texts, primarily the post-biblical literature of the late antique and early medieval periods. The project focuses on these hybrid medieval Latin and Hebrew texts at the point when they enter into either dialogue or disputation with each other over religious and geographic identities in England and Northern France; this dynamic is especially evident during the period of the Crusades. Some of the wide variety of texts and genres include medieval Latin and Hebrew reworkings of Josephus' Jewish War, the Anglo-French Play of Adam, and the Latin "Romance" of the patriarch Joseph's Egyptian wife, Aseneth"-- UR - http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctt1pc5g2f ER -