Jewish Piety in Islamic Jerusalem

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Jewish Piety in Islamic Jerusalem is written by Jessica Hope Andruss and published by Oxford University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0197639550 (ISBN 10) and 9780197639559 (ISBN 13).

The first Jewish Bible commentaries were written in Arabic, in medieval Islamic cities like Baghdad and Jerusalem. Jewish Piety in Islamic Jerusalem explores the construction of a new Jewish spirituality within these texts, focusing on the Lamentations commentary of Salmon ben Yeruhim. Salmon considers Lamentations to be a source of pious and ritual instruction for the Jewish community in exile. He reinterprets the Bible and traditional rabbinic teachings with the scholarly tools of his era--Arabic-Islamic models of exegesis, homily, and historiography--and develops distinctively Jewish practices of biblical scholarship, asceticism, and penitential mourning.