Cursing the Christians? : a history of the birkat haminim / Ruth Langer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Langer, Ruth, 1960-

Language:

English

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Birkat ha-minim.

Amidah (Jewish prayer).

Judaism--Relations--Christianity.

Judaism.

Relations.

Christianity.

Christianity and other religions--Judaism.

Christianity and other religions.

Physical Description:

389 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, [2012]

Language Note:

Passages in Hebrew followed by English translations.

Contents:

Origins and early history: late antiquity

Under early Islam: the period of the Geonim and the geniza

The birkat haminim in Europe of the High Middle Ages

Living with censorship?: early modern realities

The modern period: changes by choice to the text

Appendix 1. Geniza texts of the birkat haminim

Appendix 2. Evidence for the birkat haminim in the pre-Sephardized rites of the Muslim world

Appendix 3. Uncensored medieval European texts of the birkat haminim

Appendix 4. Censored texts of the birkat haminim, 1550 to the present

Appendix 5. Texts of the liberal movements.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9780199783175

0199783179

OCLC:

712780941