New perspectives on Jewish-Christian relations : in honor of David Berger / edited by Elisheva Carlebach, Jacob J. Schacter.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Carlebach, Elisheva.

Schacter, Jacob J.

Berger, David, 1943-

Series:

Brill reference library of Judaism ; v. 33.

The Brill reference library of Judaism ; v. 33

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Judaism--Relations--Christianity.

Judaism.

Relations.

Christianity.

Christianity and other religions--Judaism.

Christianity and other religions.

Genre:

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

ix, 547 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.

Summary:

"The delicate balance between toleration and repulsion of the Jews, a tiny minority living within the Christian world, stands at the center of studies of religion and society. The development of this difficult relationship on many levels, theological, institutional, and individual, is a matter of continuing relevance in religious history from ancient to contemporary contexts. This volume, written by the leading scholars of Jewish-Christian engagement, seeks to revisit the question in light of new sources and re-reading of older sources. The old view of two implacable enemies battling for their version of truth, of Jews living as insular pariahs within a hostile world, the tale of persecution by the mighty of the weak, has given way to a much more nuanced understanding of areas of congruence, of cultural, economic, and social interchange. The volume examines changes in the Christian posture toward the Jews occurring in a time and place of tremendous cultural and religious creativity in Western European society. It seeks to understand how Jews integrated elements of Christian culture into their own. The volume spans some of the key turning points in the Jewish-Christian relationship and re-examines critical texts, religious disputations, and cultural interactions." --from back cover.

Contents:

Introduction / Elisheva Carlebach and Jacob J. Schacter

On the authenticity of the Testimonium Flavianum attributed to Josephus / Louis H. Feldman

The Menorah and the Cross: historiographical reflections on a recent discovery from Laodicea on the Lycus / Steven Fine

Judaizing the Passion: the case of the crown of thorns in the Middle Ages / William Chester Jordan

"Unless the Lord watches over the city ...": Joan of Aragon and his Jews, June-October 1391 / Benjamin R. Gampel

Genesis 49:10 in thirteenth-century Christian missionizing / Robert Chazan

The different Hebrew versions of the "Talmud Trial" of 1240 in Paris / Judah Galinsky

An infant's missionary sermon addressed to the Jews of Rome in 1553 / Robert Bonfil

Rabbi Jonathan Eibeschuetz and the alleged Jewish-Christian sect in eighteenth-century Amsterdam / Sid Z. Leiman

Seeking signs? Jews, Christians, and proof by fire in medieval Germany and Northern France / Elisheva Baumgarten

A medieval Judeo-Spanish poem on the complementarity of faith and works and its intellectual roots / Bernard Septimus

"Because our wives trade and do business with our goods": gender, work, and Jewish-Christian relations / Debra Kaplan

Meiri and the non-Jew: a comparative investigation / Yaakov Elman

Changing attitudes toward apostates in Tosafist literature, late twelfth-early thirteenth centuries / Ephraim Kanarfogel

The Portuguese Jews of Amsterdam and the status of Christians / Miriam Bodian

Rabbi Jacob Emden, Sabbatianism, and Frankism: attitudes toward Christianity in the eighteenth century / Jacob J. Schacter

Rashi's position on prophecy among the nations and the Jewish-Christian polemic / Avraham Grossman

Isaiah's suffering servant and the Jews: from the nineteenth century to the ninth / Elliott Horowitz

Peshat or polemics: the case of Genesis 36 / Martin I. Lockshin

Maimonides' attitude toward Christian biblical hermeneutics in light of earlier Jewish sources / Mordechai Z. Cohen

Karaism and Christianity: an evolving relationship / Daniel J. Lasker

Morality, liberalism, and interfaith dialogue / David Shatz

The Jewish people and their Sacred Scriptures in the Christian Bible, by the Pontifical Biblical Commission (Rome, 2001) / Michael Wyschogrod.

ISBN:

9789004221178

9004221174

OCLC:

755004279