GARY A. RENDSBURG - Jews In Arabia
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ก.พ. 2025
- On 15 September 2020, Professor Gary Rendsburg of the Department of Jewish Studies at Rutgers University gave a fascinating online lecture exploring how textual evidence can cast light on the lesser-known Jewish communities living in the Arabian peninsula, in the period from 70 CE to the rise of Islam in the 7th century.
Jews lived in oases in northern Arabia, as Jewish tribes in and around Medina, and even formed the basis of a Jewish kingdom in Yemen - while the wealthiest among them arranged for their burials back in the land of Israel, despite the great distances involved.
This narrative reminds us how time and again the historian of Judaism needs to have the broadest cultural and geographical horizons.
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In many markets in the south-west of Saudi Arabia (Jizan and surrounding area) they sell woven straw baskets of many different styles. The finest (and most expensive) woven baskets are known locally as “Jewish baskets”. Apparently these fine baskets had been produced by local Jewish tribes who had lived in the surrounding area. I could never find out anything definitive about such tribes or when they were producing such baskets. (I was told that these “Jewish baskets” were now provided by local families - presumably now non-Jewish families.
All I have to say is Kamal Salibi who wrote a great book “The Bible Came From Arabia”….
The subject, however, remains shrouded in secrecy and ambiguity, especially since some orientalists and theorists of cultural and civilizational hostility towards Islam and Muslims portray this story as if it were a black spot in Islamic history, or a process of purification or extermination to which the Jews of Medina were subjected, while it is sufficient to turn over the data of reliable history to find that the Messenger Muhammad, may God bless him and grant him peace, dealt with the Jews of Medina in a manner that exceeded the covenants and agreements in effect in the modern era, in terms of respecting doctrinal and cultural particularities, and even not imposing any jizya or discrimination against the Jews of “Yathrib.”
“Exceeded”! “respected”!,,
Is that why He ordered the Beheading of all the Captives men (more than 600) of Bani Quraza?!
“Exceeded”! “respected”!,,
Is that why He ordered the Beheading of all the Captive men (more than 600) of Bani Quraza?!
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