Blar i Bergen Open Research Archive på forfatter "van der Haven, Alexander"
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The Earliest Footprint of a Messianic Queen: Sarah the Ashkenazi in Amsterdam
van der Haven, Alexander (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)A record from 1 November 1655 of a donation to a certain Sarah from Poland is probably the first documented historical appearance of Sarah the Ashkenazi, future wife of messiah Sabbatai Tsevi. Individually recorded donations ... -
Eschatology and Conversion in the Sperling Letters
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A Jewish Qur’an: An Eighteenth-Century Hebrew Qur’an Translation in its Indian Context
van der Haven, Alexander (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)This essay places the Washington Library of Congress Heb. Ms 183, a Hebrew Qur’an translation from eighteenth-century Cochin, in its South Indian context. After pointing out important general differences between early ... -
Jews and Christians United: The 1701 Prosecution of Oliger Paulli and his Dutch Printers
Kunert, Jeannine; van der Haven, Alexander (Journal article, 2020)Numerous religious texts were printed that would have been censored, elsewhere including Jewish religious texts. Yet freedom had its limits. In August 1701, Amsterdam’s judiciary council ordered the books authored by the ... -
Religious Minorities: Conceptual Perspectives
van der Haven, Alexander; Stausberg, Michael; Baffelli, Erica (Journal article, 2023)This essay proposes definitions of key terms such as ‘minoritization’, ‘majoritization’, and ‘religious minority’, and problematizes standard criteria of identification of religious minorities while also advocating for an ...