Danuta Shanzer
Danuta Shanzer, a classicist and medievalist, was educated at the Brearley School, Bryn Mawr College, and Oxford University. She has taught at Oxford, the University of Manchester, the University of California, Berkeley, Harvard University, Cornell University, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In 2011 she took up a position as Professor of Late Antique and Medieval Latin Philology at the University of Vienna. She is a Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America, of the Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, of SISMEL, and of the Academia Europaea. She specializes in the Latin literature and in the social and religious history of Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. Some favorite authors include Martianus Capella, Prudentius, Avitus of Vienne, Augustine, Jerome, and Gregory of Tours. Her work ranges from the philological and literary to the historical and theological, involves most of the barbarian successor kingdoms, and includes a long-term project on the development of various judicial ordeals in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. She serves on the editorial boards of numerous journals and is Latin Editor for the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library.
Address: Institut für Klassische Philologie, Mittel-, und Neulatein
Universität Wien
Universitätsring 1
A-1010 Wien
Österreich
Address: Institut für Klassische Philologie, Mittel-, und Neulatein
Universität Wien
Universitätsring 1
A-1010 Wien
Österreich
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Books by Danuta Shanzer
Benefitting from the crossover of different disciplinary, historical, and artistic perspectives, the volume investigates the manifold ways in which dance can acquire meaning, disclose storyworlds, elicit the narratees’ responses, and generate powerful narratives of its own. Together, the eclectic approaches of Choreonarratives rethink dance’s capacity to tell, enrich, and inspire stories.
The 11 chapters in this book, Geneses: A Comparative Study of the Historiographies of the Rise of Christianity, Rabbinic Judaism and Islam, written by an international group of specialists the languages, religions, laws and cultures of early Judaism, Christianity and Islam, tackle these questions through a comparative study of these narratives: their formation over time, and their use today. They explore three key aspects of the field: (1) the construction (and scholarly deconstruction) of the narratives of triumph (and defeat) of religions, (2) how legal imperatives are constructed from religious narratives and sacred texts, and (3) contemporary ramifications of these issues. In doing so, they tap into the significant body of research over the last 30 years, which has shown the fluidity and malleability of these religious traditions in relation to each other and to more traditional "pagan" and Zoroastrian religions and philosophical traditions.
This book represents an important contribution to, and a valuable resource for, the burgeoning field of comparative history of the Abrahamic religions.
Table of Contents
Introduction (John Tolan)
I. Narratives of Triumph and defeat
The Contours of Abrahamic Identity: A Zoroastrian Perspective (Yishai Kiel)
The Twilight of the Ancient Gods (Danuta Shanzer)
Simon the God: Imagining the Other in Second-Century Christianity (Duncan MacRae)
Contested Ground in Gaza: Hagiography and the Narrative of Triumphalist Christianity (Claudia Rapp)
Between Jerome and Augustine of Hippo: Some Intellectual Preoccupations of Late Antiquity (Mohamed-Arbi Nsiri)
II. Forging legal paradigms
What is ‘Islamic’ about Geonic Depictions of the Oral Torah? (Marc Herman)
Reevaluating the Role of the Epigones (tabiʿun) in the Formation of Islamic Ritual and Jurisprudence (Mohammed Hocine Benkheira)
Recording Debts in Sufyanid Fusṭāṭ: A Re-examination of the Procedures and Calendar in Use in the 1st/7th century (Naïm Vanthieghem)
Marriage and Sexual Ethics: Divergence and Change in Classical Islamic Legal Texts (Karen Moukheiber)
III. Contemporary Echoes
Teaching Early Islam: The Gap Between School and the Internet in British Schooling (Philip Wood)
The Shahada and the Creation of an Islamic Identity (Suleiman A. Mourad)
Papers by Danuta Shanzer
Benefitting from the crossover of different disciplinary, historical, and artistic perspectives, the volume investigates the manifold ways in which dance can acquire meaning, disclose storyworlds, elicit the narratees’ responses, and generate powerful narratives of its own. Together, the eclectic approaches of Choreonarratives rethink dance’s capacity to tell, enrich, and inspire stories.
The 11 chapters in this book, Geneses: A Comparative Study of the Historiographies of the Rise of Christianity, Rabbinic Judaism and Islam, written by an international group of specialists the languages, religions, laws and cultures of early Judaism, Christianity and Islam, tackle these questions through a comparative study of these narratives: their formation over time, and their use today. They explore three key aspects of the field: (1) the construction (and scholarly deconstruction) of the narratives of triumph (and defeat) of religions, (2) how legal imperatives are constructed from religious narratives and sacred texts, and (3) contemporary ramifications of these issues. In doing so, they tap into the significant body of research over the last 30 years, which has shown the fluidity and malleability of these religious traditions in relation to each other and to more traditional "pagan" and Zoroastrian religions and philosophical traditions.
This book represents an important contribution to, and a valuable resource for, the burgeoning field of comparative history of the Abrahamic religions.
Table of Contents
Introduction (John Tolan)
I. Narratives of Triumph and defeat
The Contours of Abrahamic Identity: A Zoroastrian Perspective (Yishai Kiel)
The Twilight of the Ancient Gods (Danuta Shanzer)
Simon the God: Imagining the Other in Second-Century Christianity (Duncan MacRae)
Contested Ground in Gaza: Hagiography and the Narrative of Triumphalist Christianity (Claudia Rapp)
Between Jerome and Augustine of Hippo: Some Intellectual Preoccupations of Late Antiquity (Mohamed-Arbi Nsiri)
II. Forging legal paradigms
What is ‘Islamic’ about Geonic Depictions of the Oral Torah? (Marc Herman)
Reevaluating the Role of the Epigones (tabiʿun) in the Formation of Islamic Ritual and Jurisprudence (Mohammed Hocine Benkheira)
Recording Debts in Sufyanid Fusṭāṭ: A Re-examination of the Procedures and Calendar in Use in the 1st/7th century (Naïm Vanthieghem)
Marriage and Sexual Ethics: Divergence and Change in Classical Islamic Legal Texts (Karen Moukheiber)
III. Contemporary Echoes
Teaching Early Islam: The Gap Between School and the Internet in British Schooling (Philip Wood)
The Shahada and the Creation of an Islamic Identity (Suleiman A. Mourad)