The salvation of Israel : Jews in Christian eschatology from Paul to the Puritans / Jeremy Cohen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cohen, Jeremy, 1953- author.

Series:

Medieval societies, religions, and cultures.

Cornell scholarship online.

Medieval societies, religions, and cultures

Cornell scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Judaism (Christian theology)--History of doctrines.

Judaism (Christian theology).

Christianity and other religions--Judaism.

Christianity and other religions.

Judaism--Relations--Christianity.

Judaism.

End of the world--History of doctrines.

End of the world.

Antichrist--History of doctrines.

Antichrist.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (343 pages)

Place of Publication:

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2022.

Summary:

The Salvation of Israel investigates Christianity's eschatological Jew: the role and characteristics of the Jews at the end of days in the Christian imagination. It explores the depth of Christian ambivalence regarding these Jews, from Paul's Epistle to the Romans, through late antiquity and the Middle Ages, to the Puritans of the 17th century. Jeremy Cohen contends that few aspects of a religion shed as much light on the character and the self-understanding of its adherents as its expectations for the end of time. Moreover, eschatological beliefs express and mold an outlook toward nonbelievers, situating them in an overall scheme of human history and conditioning interaction with them as that history unfolds. Cohen's close readings of biblical commentary, theological texts, and Christian iconography reveal the dual role of the Jews of the last days.

Contents:

Paul and the mystery of Israel's salvation

The Pauline legacy: from Origen to Pelagius

The Latin West, from Augustine to Luther and Calvin

Antichrist and the Jews in early Christianity

Jews and the many faces of Antichrist in the Middle Ages

Antichrist and Jews in literature, drama, and visual arts

Honorius Augustodunensis, the Song of songs, and Synagoga Conversa

Jewish converts and Christian salvation: Pablo de Santa María, Bishop of Burgos

Puritans, Jews, and the end of days.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2022.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 23, 2023).

ISBN:

9781501785368

1501785362

9781501764769

1501764764

OCLC:

1294151549