Fashioning Jewish Identity in Medieval Western Christendom Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Fashioning Jewish Identity in Medieval Western Christendom Book

This book studies in detail five twelfth- and thirteenth-century polemicists from southern France and northern Spain. These are the first known Jewish polemicists from western Christendom, who identified their perceptions of major Christian challenges, and the lines of response proposed to fellow Jews who came increasingly under religious pressure. The analysis suggests that these Jewish polemicists ultimately attempted to offer their followers a starkly contrasting portrait of Christian and Jewish society, the former powerful but irrational and morally debased, the latter weak but profoundly rational and morally elevated.Read More

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    Five twelfth- and thirteenth-century polemicists from southern France and northern Spain are the first known Jewish polemicists from western Christendom, who identified major Christian challenges, as well as appropriate responses for fellow Jews under ever-increasing religious pressure. This analysis suggests that the Jewish polemicists ultimately attempted to offer their followers a significantly contrasting portrait of Christian and Jewish society: the former as powerful but irrational and morally debased; the latter as weak, but profoundly rational and morally elevated.

  • 0521100569
  • 9780521100564
  • Robert Chazan
  • 29 January 2009
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 396
  • 1
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