Persecution, Polemic, and Dialogue : : Essays in Jewish-Christian Relations / / David Berger.

Persecution, Polemic, and Dialogue follows the interaction between Jews and Christians through the ages in all its richness, complexity, and diversity. This collection of essays analyzes anti-Semitism, perceptions of the Other, and religious debates in the Middle Ages and proceeds to consider modern...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Academic Studies Press Backlist eBook-Package 2008-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2010]
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Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
Series:Judaism and Jewish Life
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Physical Description:1 online resource (450 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • Spanning The Centuries
  • Anti-Semitism: An Overview
  • The Middle Ages
  • From Crusades to Blood Libels to Expulsions: Some New Approaches to Medieval Anti-Semitism
  • A Generation of Scholarship on Jewish-Christian Interaction in the Medieval World
  • Jacob Katz on Jews and Christians in the Middle Ages
  • Introduction to Th e Jewish-Christian Debate in the High Middle Ages: A Critical Edition of the Nizzahon Vetus with an Introduction, Translation, and Commentary
  • On the Image and Destiny of Gentiles in Ashkenazic Polemical Literature
  • On the Uses of History in Medieval Jewish Polemic against Christianity: Th e Quest for the Historical Jesus
  • Christians, Gentiles, and the Talmud: A Fourteenth-Century Jewish Response to the Attack on Rabbinic Judaism
  • Mission to the Jews and Jewish-Christian Contacts in the Polemical Literature of the High Middle Ages
  • The Barcelona Disputation: Review Essay
  • Christian Heresy and Jewish Polemic in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
  • Gilbert Crispin, Alan of Lille, and Jacob Ben Reuben: A Study in the Transmission of Medieval Polemic
  • The Attitude of St. Bernard of Clairvaux toward the Jews
  • St. Peter Damian: His Attitude toward the Jews and the Old Testament
  • Modern and Contemporary Times
  • Religion, Nationalism, and Historiography: Yehezkel Kaufmann’s Account of Jesus and Early Christianity
  • The “Jewish Contribution” to Christianity
  • Jewish-Christian Relations: A Jewish Perspective
  • Reflections on Conversion and Proselytizing in Judaism and Christianity
  • On Dominus Iesus and the Jews
  • Revisiting “Confrontation” After Forty Years: A Response to Rabbi Eugene Korn
  • Dabru Emet: Some Reservations about a Jewish Statement on Christians and Christianity
  • Jews, Christians, and The Passion
  • Index of Sources
  • Index