Resumen de Jewish Intertextuality on the Early Life of Abraham in Alphonso X’s General Estoria
In this article, I argue the influence of midrashic stories and apocryphal texts employed as possible sources in historical chronicle General estoria by Alphonso X of Castile (1212-1284) to portray the character of Abraham under the motifs of “astronomer”, “monotheist”, and “iconoclast”. The analysis will permit us to establish the intertextual parallels between these noncited rabbinic writings and this work as a form of amplificatio of the Patriarch’s early years absent from the biblical account without altering the Christian reading of the text.
