Interaction between Judaism and Christianity in history, religion, art and literature / / edited by Marcel Poorthuis, Joshua Schwartz, Joseph Turner.

• Superior document: Jewish and Christian perspectives series, v. 17
• TeilnehmendeR: Poorthuis, Marcel, 1955-; Schwartz, Joshua.; Turner, Joseph.
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Series: Jewish and Christian perspectives series ; v. 17.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (640 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

This volume contains a variety of essays that deal with the complex relationships between Judaism and Christianity. From the Jewish side, particularly in Orthodox circles, there is a position maintaining the independence of Judaism from outside influences including Christianity. Traditional Christia...

Table of Contents

• Introduction / Marcel Poorthuis, Joshua Schwartz and Joseph Turner
• Jews and Christians in the Roman-Byzantine period. Jewish-Christian relations and rabbinic literature : shifting scholarly and relational paradigms : the case of two powers / Alon Goshen-Gottstein
• Learning and practising : uses of an early Jewish discourse in Matthew (7:24-27) and rabbinic literature / Eric Ottenheijm
• Rabbinic and Christian models of interaction on the Song of songs / Tamar Kadari
• Monism and dualism in Jewish-mystical and Christian-gnostic ascent texts / Gerard P. Luttikhuizen
• A remarkable case of religious interaction : water baptisms in Judaism and Christianity / Gerard Rouwhorst
• On trees, waves, and cytokinesis : shifting paradigms in early (and modern) Jewish-Christian relations / Daniel Stokl Ben Ezra
• The deserts of Palestine : wilderness in the thought of the rabbis and the desert fathers : geographic reality and the criscrossing of motifs / Joshua Schwartz
• Jews and Christians in the Middle Ages. The modality of interaction between Jewish and Christian thought in the Middle Ages : the problem of free will and divine wisdom in Dante Alighieri and Menahem Recanati as a case study / Sandra Debenedetti Stow
• Die Pariser verfahren gegen den Talmud von 1240 und 1248 im kontext von papsttum un Franzosischem konigtum / Daniela Mueller
• The dynamic of religious polemics : the case of Raymond Martin (ca.1220-ca.1285) / Syds Wiersma
• The Jewish Pardes metaphor as reflected in the magical garden of a Christian knight / Lily Glasner
• The problems of modernity. Calvinist resistance and Dutch Jewry : the 'pillarized' background / Gert van Klinken
• Religious insulation as a mode of interdependence : relating Catholicism and modernity / Staf Hellemans
• Good enough for the Goyim? : Samuel Hirsch and Samuel Holdheim on Christianity / Judith Frishman
• Sacred death for orthodox Jewish thought during the Holocaust : with a preliminary inquiry into Christian parallels / Gershon Greenberg
• Ritual and theology in the modern, post-modern and new ages. From monologues to possible dialogue : Judaism's attitude towards Christianity according to the philosophy of R. Yehouda Leon Askenazi (Manitou) / Yossef Charvit
• Faith and the courage to be : Heschel and Tillich / Alexander Even-Chen
• 'A symbolic bridge between faiths' : holy ground for liquid ritual / Paul Post
• Kabbalah on the internet : transcending denominational boundaries in conflicting ideologies / Marcel Poorthuis and Frank Bosman
• 'An indissoluble bond between the church and the people of Israel' : historical fact or theological conviction? / Simon Schoon
• The anomaly of Jewish ethnicity as a consideration in contemporary interreligious dialogue / Joseph Turner
• Art. Jewish and Christian imaging of the 'house of God' : a fourth century reflection of religious and historical polemics / Shulamit Laderman and Yair Furstenberg
• The king of the King of Kings : images of rulership in late medieval and early modern Christian art and synagogue design / Ilia Rodov
• The sun rays on top of the Torah ark : a dialogue with the aureole, the Christian symbol of the Divinity on top of the altarpiece / Bracha Yaniv
• The iconography of the holy family in Chagall's 1909-1910 works / Mirjam Rajner
• Literature. Notes on Christians and Christianity in Agnon's writings / Hillel Weiss
• Gide and Sartre on Jews and Judaism / Yaffa Wolfman.