Studies in medieval Jewish intellectual and social history : festschrift in honor of Robert Chazan / / edited by David Engel, Lawrence Schiffmann, Elliot Wolfson.

• Superior document: Supplements to The journal of Jewish thought and philosophy, v. 15
• TeilnehmendeR: Chazan, Robert.; Engel, David, (Professor); Schiffman, Lawrence H.; Wolfson, Elliot R.
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Supplements to The journal of Jewish thought and philosophy ; v. 15.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (342 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

For more than four decades Robert Chazan has been a copious source of original insights into the history and culture of medieval European Jewry, challenging conventional wisdom with profound erudition and sober analysis. In this volume, thirteen leading Judaicists and medievalists engage subjects that have been of particular concern to Professor Chazan during his distinguished career: the history of the Jewish communities in Western Christendom during the Middle Ages, Jewish-Christian interactions in medieval Europe, medieval Jewish Biblical exegesis and religious literature, and historical representations of the experience of medieval Jewry. Taken together they offer a comprehensive portrait of the state of the field of medieval Jewish studies.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / David Engel , Lawrence H. Schiffman and Elliot R. Wolfson -- Robert Chazan: In Appreciation and Friendship / David Engel , Lawrence H. Schiffman and Elliot R. Wolfson -- Guibert of Nogent and William of Flay and the Problem of Jewish Conversion at the Time of the First Crusade / Anna Sapir Abulafia -- Rashi’s Choice: The Humash Commentary As Rewritten Midrash / Ivan G. Marcus -- The Commentary of Rashi on Isaiah and the Jewish-Christian Debate / Avraham Grossman -- Were Jews Made in the Image of God? Christian Perspectives and Jewish Existence in Medieval Europe / Brigitte Miriam Bedos-Rezak -- Jewish Knowledge of Christianity in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries / Daniel J. Lasker -- Dreams As a Determinant of Jewish Law and Practice in Northern Europe during the High Middle Ages / Ephraim Kanarfogel -- Orality and Literacy: The French Tosaphists / Gérard Nahon -- Torah and the Messianic Age: The Polemical and Exegetical History of a Rabbinic Text / David Berger -- Textual Flesh, Incarnation, and the Imaginal Body: Abraham Abulafia’s Polemic with Christianity / Elliot R. Wolfson -- The Jewish Cemeteries of France after the Expulsion of 1306 / William Chester Jordan -- The Cruel Jewish Father: From Miracle to Murder / Kenneth Stow -- From Solomon Bar Samson to Solomon Ibn Verga: Tales and Ideas of Jewish Martyrdom in Shevet Yehudah / Jeremy Cohen -- Salo Baron’s View of the Middle Ages in Jewish History: Early Sources / David Engel -- Bibliography of the Works of Robert Chazan / Yechiel Y. Schur -- Index / David Engel , Lawrence H. Schiffman and Elliot R. Wolfson.