Fashioning Jewish Identity in Medieval Western Christendom

Εξώφυλλο
Cambridge University Press, 27 Νοε 2003
During the course of the twelfth century, increasing numbers of Jews migrated into dynamically developing western Christendom from Islamic lands. The vitality that attracted them also presented a challenge: Christianity - from early in its history - had proclaimed itself heir to a failed Jewish community and thus the vitality of western Christendom was both appealing and threatening to the Jewish immigrants. Indeed, western Christendom was entering a phase of intense missionising activity, some of which was directed at the long-term Jewish residents of Europe and the Jewish newcomers. This 2003 study examines the techniques of persuasion adopted by the Jewish polemicists in order to reassure their Jewish readers of the truth of Judaism and the error of Christianity. At the very deepest level, these Jewish authors sketched out for their fellow Jews a comparative portrait of Christian and Jewish societies - the former powerful but irrational and morally debased, the latter the weak but reasonable and morally elevated - urging that the obvious and sensible choice was Judaism.
 

Περιεχόμενα

Introduction
1
PART I Backdrop
23
PART II Data and foundations
89
PART III Jesus as Messiah
141
PART IV Rejection of the Messiah and rejection of the Jews
179
PART V The Messiah human and divine
231
PART VI Jewish polemicists on the attack
279
PART VII Underlying issues
315
Bibliography
360
Index of subjects and proper names
373
Scripture index
377
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Robert Chazan is Scheuer Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, New York University.

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