Robert Chazan

Fashioning Jewish Identity in Medieval Western Christendom

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Produktbeschreibung

This study examines the techniques of persuasion adopted by the Jewish polemicists.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 396
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 641g
• ISBN-13: 9780521100564
• ISBN-10: 0521100569
• Artikelnr.: 25616938

Autorenporträt

Robert Chazan is Scheuer Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, New York University.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Short titles for frequently cited texts
Introduction
Part I. Backdrop: 1. Jesus and the Jews: the gospel accounts
2. Post-Gospel Christian argumentation: continuities and expansions
3. Pre-twelfth-century Jewish argumentation
Part II. Data and Foundations: 4. The Jewish polemicists of southern France and northern Spain
5. Scriptural and alternative lines of argumentation
Part III. Jesus as Messiah: 6. Biblical prophecy: messianic advent
7. Biblical prophecy: the Messiah reviled and vindicated
Part IV. Rejection of the Messiah and Rejection of the Jews: 8. Biblical prophecy and empirical observation: displacement of the Jews
9. Biblical prophecy: redemption of the Jews
10. Biblical prophecy and empirical observation: Christian failures
Part V. The Messiah Human and Divine: 11. Biblical prophecy: the Messiah human and divine
12. Human reason: the Messiah human and divine
Part VI. Jewish Polemicists on the Attack: 13. Christian Scripture and Jesus
14. Comparative behaviors: Jewish achievement and Christian shortcoming
Part VII. Underlying Issues: 15. Techniques of persuasion
16. Fashioning identities: other and self
Bibliography
Index of subjects and proper names
Scripture index.