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Carol Bakhos is Professor of Late Antique Judaism at the University of California at Los Angeles and is the editor of Ancient Judaism in its Hellenistic Context.
Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction
Methodology
Overview
1. Ishmael and Esau: Marginalized Men of the Bible
2. Ishmael in Tannaitic and Amoraic LiteratureIshmael in the Bible
Esau in the Bible
3. The Rabbis and Their OthersThe Tannaitic Sources
The Amoraic Sources
4. Ishmael in Later MidrashimThe Pairing of Ishmael and Esau in Rabbinic Literature
Esau as Real Other
Ishmael, the Ishmaelites, and the Children of Keturah
The Arab Descendants of Ishmael
Abraham's Descendants and Israel's Divine Election
The Role of Christianity in the Depiction of the Other
ConclusionsThe Treatment of Ishmael in Pirke Rabbi Eliezer
Abraham's Visits to Ishmael in Pirke de Rabbi Eliezer
Abraham's Visits to Ishmael in Arabic Sources
Revisiting the Visits
The Ishmaelites in Pirke de Rabbi Eliezer
