Persecution, polemic, and dialogue : essays in Jewish-Christian relations / David Berger.

Persecution, Polemic, and Dialogue follows the interaction between Jews and Christians through the ages in all its richness, complexity, and diversity. This collection of essays analyzes anti-Semitism, perceptions of the Other, and religious debates in the Middle Ages and proceeds to consider modern...

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Online Access:Electronic book from EBSCO
Main Author: Berger, David, 1943-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published:Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2010.
Series:Judaism and Jewish life.
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Table of Contents:
  • Spanning the centuries. Anti-Semitism : an overview
  • The Middle Ages. From Crusades to blood libels to expulsions : some new approaches to medieval anti-Semitism
  • A generation fo scholarship on Jewish-Christian interaction in the medieval world
  • Jacob Katz on Jews and Christians in the Middle Ages
  • Introduction to The Jewish-Christian debate in the high Middle Ages : a critical edition of the Nizzahon vetus with an introduction, translation, and commentary
  • On the image and destiny of Gentiles in Ashkenazic polemical literature
  • On the uses of history in medieval Jewish polemic against Christianity : the quest for the historical Jesus
  • Christians, Gentiles, and the Talmud : a fourteenth-century Jewish response to the attack on rabbinic Judaism
  • Mission to the Jews and Jewish-Christian contacts in the polemical literature of the high Middle Ages
  • The Barcelona disputation : review essay
  • Christian heresy and Jewish polemic in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries
  • Gilbert Crispin, Alan of Lille, and Jacob Ben Reuben : a study in the transmission of medieval polemic
  • The attitude of St. Bernard of Clairvaux toward the Jews
  • St. Peter Damian : his attitude toward the Jews and the Old Testament
  • Modern and contemporary times. Religion, nationalism, and historiography : Yehezkel Kaufmann's account of Jesus and early Christianity
  • The "Jewish contribution" to Christianity
  • Jewish-Christian relations : a Jewish perspective
  • Reflections on conversion and proselytizing in Judaism and Christianity
  • On Dominus Iesus and the Jews
  • Revisiting "confrontation" after forty years : a response to Rabbi Eugene Korn
  • Dabru Emet : some reservations about a Jewish statement on Christians and Christianity
  • Jews, Christians and The passion.