Ishmael on the Border: Rabbinic Portrayals of the First Arab

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υAbot (Mishnah), 130, 172n71 υAbot de Rabbi Natan, 168n36, 171n60, 174n98 al-Azraqı̄, 12, 173n83 al-Bukhārı̄, 12, 110, 173n83 al-Kisāυı̄, 110, 173n83, 175n99 al-Masζūdı̄, 110, 173 n83, 175n99 al-T . abarı̄, 12, 109, 110–11, 173n83, 173n87, 177n119 al-T . abarsı̄, 12, 173n83 Alter, Robert, 13, 26, 140n3, 147n57, 149n77 al-Thaζlabı̄, 12, 110, 115, 173n83, 174n99 al-Yaζqūbı̄, 110, 173n83, 174n99, 177n119 Aminoff, Irit, 154n18 apologetics, 12, 105, 113–14, 124 Aqedah, 49, 99–100, 102, 148n74, 167n30, 168–69n43, 169n48, 171n60 Aqiba, Rabbi, 33–34, 40, 64, 125, 150n9, 155n28 Arab(s): Genealogy of, 1, 67, 69, 95, 116–18, 133, 142n20, 157n52, 158n60, 159n69, 160n76, 166n29, 177n119 in Jewish Sources, 2, 31–32, 54, 66–74, 95, 129–31, 133, 148n72, 151n17, 158n54, 158n62, 160n80 ζArakin (BT.), 72 ζAbodah Zarah (BT.) 7, 71–72 Ayeshah, 107, 112, 115, 121, 175nn100–101, 178n125 Baba Batra (BT.), 62, 91, 151n23, 155n38, 165n11 Baba Mes .iζa (BT.), 70 Baba Qamma (BT.), 60 Babylonian Amoraim, 7, 136n9, 155n32 sayings of, 137n10 Babylonian rabbis, 7, 136–37n9 Babylonian statements, 131 Babylonian Talmud, 2, 5, 7, 42, 57, 65, 70–72, 137n18, 164n3, 179n140 See tractate name for individual tractate listings Baron, S., 172n77, 178n133 Beer-lahai-roi, 26–27, 53 beney Yishmael, 74, 97, 122, 125 Berakot (BT.), 70 Berakot (PT.), 31, 36–37, 97–98, 150n8, 167n34 Berakot (Tosefta), 158n62 Bikkurim (PT.), 64, 91–92, 149n80 Binding of Isaac. See Aqedah Birthright, 25–26, 61–62, 76–77, 91, 100, 165n11 Boyarin, Daniel, 7–8, 135n5 136n6, 137n13, 137n16, 152n3, 155–56n39, 162n101, 163n102 Cain, 15, 108 and Abel, 13, 15, 89 expulsion from eden, 141n12 201 Index Canaan, 15, 21, 107, 176n113 Charlesworth, James H., 159n76 Christian Rome, 4, 44, 66, 80, 153n11, 154n18 Chronicles (Book of ), 27, 172n73 Circumcision, 73, 76, 98–101, 142n18, 143nn24–25, 159n76, 168n37 Cohen, Gershon, 48, 55, 63–64, 154n21, 156n40, 157n49 Cohen, Mark, 112, 164n2, 176n103 Cook, Michael, 170n57, 180n153 Covenant, 13, 48, 142–43n24 with Abraham, 3, 16, 53, 57, 76, 78, 81, 101, 103 Davidic, 122 and Esau, 100 and Isaac, 16–17, 26, 28, 50–51, 53, 142n21 and Ishmael, 14, 16–17, 50–51, 55, 98, 104, 114, 143n24, 174n91 with Israel, 74–75, 78, 83, 99–100, 102, 143n24 Jacob as inheritor of, 168n38 son of, 14, 26 Crone, Patricia, 166n29, 170n57, 180n153 Cultural poetics, 8 Daniel (Book of ), 44, 122 Deuteronomy (Book of ), 25, 56, 140n7, 143n24, 146n51, 148n70, 149n5, 155n28, 160n81, 163n101, 174n97, 176n113, 179n136 Deuteronomy Rabbah, 86–88, 160n81, 164n3, 165n9 Dhimmı̄, 112, 122 Edom, 23–26, 55–56, 92, 94, 109, 125–26, 147n61, 148nn70–71, 153n6, 180n152 Edomites, 24–25, 148n72 Esau as, 3, 24, 37, 55, 63–64, 130, 148n70, 152n3, 153n6, 154n18, 156n39 as Rome, 3, 44, 55, 63–64, 79–80, 130, 148n70, 153n6, 156n39 Elbaum, Jacob, 126, 167n30, 180n147, 180n150 Eleazar, Rabbi, 33–34, 43, 59–60, 64 Eliezer, 38–39, 101–3 Enkidu, 16, 23–24 Ephah, 172n73 Eph’al, Israel, 67, 118, 142n20, 157n52, 158n56, 160n76, 177n122 Ephraim, 13, 140n4 Esau, 2–3, 10–11, 13–14, 23–28, 31, 36, 47–48, 53–63, 74, 78, 81, 86, 89, 91–92, 94, 96, 100, 123, 129–30, 147n69, 148n70, 149n81, 153n13, 155n28, 155n35, 157n51, 162n101, 162n102, 168n38, 179n136, 179n138 children of, 76, 78, 123–24, 126, 156n46, 160n82, 161n88 as Edom. See Edom and Enkidu. See Enkidu as Rome, 3–4, 11, 31, 37, 44, 47, 54–55, 63–64, 66, 79–80, 86, 130, 152n3, 152–53n6, 153n11, 154n18, 154n22, 155–56n39, 156n42, 157n48, 162n101, 163n102 Exodus Rabbah, 11, 54, 85–86, 89–91, 93, 132, 155n36, 164n3, 165n10 Exodus (Book of ), 18, 33, 140n7, 144n29, 164n3 Ezekiel (Book of ), 24, 70 Ezra, 7 Book of, 143n25 Fatimah, 107, 112, 115, 175nn101–2, 178n125 Finkelstein, Louis, 149n4, 154n24 Firestone, Reuven, viii, 12, 117, 169n43, 169n53, 173n83, 174n91, 177nn115–17, 177n121 Fraade, Steven D., 6, 136n8 Fraenkel, Jonah, 135n5 Fraenkel, Z., 122, 178n134 Friedlander, Gerald, 119, 166n30, 167n31, 172n75, 178n126, 178n134, 180n154 202 Ishmael on the Border Gadamer, Hans-Georg 130 Galatians (Letter to the), 145n41 Geller, Stephen, vii, 83, 163n105 Genesis (Book of ), 10, 13–28, 31–36, 38–43, 50–51, 53, 59–60, 62–63, 67–69, 75–76, 78–80, 83, 85, 88–92, 97, 99–100, 114–16, 119...