Jewish Philosophical Polemics Against Christianity in the Middle Ages: With a New Introduction - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Jewish Philosophical Polemics Against Christianity in the Middle Ages: With a New Introduction write by Daniel J. Lasker. This book was released on 2007-04-26. Jewish Philosophical Polemics Against Christianity in the Middle Ages: With a New Introduction available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This meticulously researched study is based on a comprehensive reading of all the major Jewish sources from the Geonic period in the ninth century until the dawn of the Haskalah in the late eighteenth century. Its clearly written and carefully documented exposition of the philosophical arguments used by Jews to refute four central doctrines of Christianity (trinity, incarnation, transubstantiation, and virgin birth) makes a major contribution to a relatively neglected area of medieval Jewish intellectual history.
Judaism on Trial
Judaism on Trial - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Judaism on Trial write by Hyam Maccoby. This book was released on 1984-10-01. Judaism on Trial available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 'A superb work of committed scholarship . . . a work full of interest to those already familiar with the material it contains, and compelling reading for those who are not. Maccoby has done a fine job in recapturing the intellectual and social drama of the confrontations.' Jonathan Sacks, Jewish Journal of Sociology Hyam Maccoby's now classic study focuses on the major Jewish—Christian disputations of medieval Europe: those of Paris (1240), Barcelona (1263), and Tortosa (1413-14).
The Cambridge History of Judaism: Volume 6, The Middle Ages: The Christian World
The Cambridge History of Judaism: Volume 6, The Middle Ages: The Christian World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cambridge History of Judaism: Volume 6, The Middle Ages: The Christian World write by Robert Chazan. This book was released on 2018-10-31. The Cambridge History of Judaism: Volume 6, The Middle Ages: The Christian World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Volume 6 examines the history of Judaism during the second half of the Middle Ages. Through the first half of the Middle Ages, the Jewish communities of western Christendom lagged well behind those of eastern Christendom and the even more impressive Jewries of the Islamic world. As Western Christendom began its remarkable surge forward in the eleventh century, this progress had an impact on the Jewish minority as well. The older Jewries of southern Europe grew and became more productive in every sense. Even more strikingly, a new set of Jewries were created across northern Europe, when this undeveloped area was strengthened demographically, economically, militarily, and culturally. From the smallest and weakest of the world's Jewish centers in the year 1000, the Jewish communities of western Christendom emerged - despite considerable obstacles - as the world's dominant Jewish center by the end of the Middle Ages. This demographic, economic, cultural, and spiritual dominance was maintained down into modernity.
Polemical and Exegetical Polarities in Medieval Jewish Cultures
Polemical and Exegetical Polarities in Medieval Jewish Cultures - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Polemical and Exegetical Polarities in Medieval Jewish Cultures write by Ehud Krinis. This book was released on 2021-10-25. Polemical and Exegetical Polarities in Medieval Jewish Cultures available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In his academic career, that by now spans six decades, Daniel J. Lasker distinguished himself by the wide range of his scholarly interests. In the field of Jewish theology and philosophy he contributed significantly to the study of Rabbinic as well as Karaite authors. In the field of Jewish polemics his studies explore Judeo-Arabic and Hebrew texts, analyzing them in the context of their Christian and Muslim backgrounds. His contributions refer to a wide variety of authors who lived from the 9th century to the 18th century and beyond, in the Muslim East, in Muslin and Christian parts of the Mediterranean Sea, and in west and east Europe. This Festschrift for Daniel J. Lasker consists of four parts. The first highlights his academic career and scholarly achievements. In the three other parts, colleagues and students of Daniel J. Lasker offer their own findings and insights in topics strongly connected to his studies, namely, intersections of Jewish theology and Biblical exegesis with the Islamic and Christian cultures, as well as Jewish-Muslim and Jewish-Christian relations. Thus, this wide-scoped and rich volume offers significant contributions to a variety of topics in Jewish Studies.
Conversion and Narrative
Conversion and Narrative - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Conversion and Narrative write by Ryan Szpiech. This book was released on 2012-10-29. Conversion and Narrative available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1322, a Jewish doctor named Abner entered a synagogue in the Castilian city of Burgos and began to weep in prayer. Falling asleep, he dreamed of a "great man" who urged him to awaken from his slumber. Shortly thereafter, he converted to Christianity and wrote a number of works attacking his old faith. Abner tells the story in fantastic detail in the opening to his Hebrew-language but anti-Jewish polemical treatise, Teacher of Righteousness. In the religiously plural context of the medieval Western Mediterranean, religious conversion played an important role as a marker of social boundaries and individual identity. The writers of medieval religious polemics such as Teacher of Righteousness often began by giving a brief, first-person account of the rejection of their old faith and their embrace of the new. In such accounts, Ryan Szpiech argues, the narrative form plays an important role in dramatizing the transition from infidelity to faith. Szpiech draws on a wide body of sources from Christian, Jewish, and Muslim polemics to investigate the place of narrative in the representation of conversion. Making a firm distinction between stories told about conversion and the experience of religious change, his book is not a history of conversion itself but a comparative study of how and why it was presented in narrative form within the context of religious disputation. He argues that between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries, conversion narratives were needed to represent communal notions of history and authority in allegorical, dramatic terms. After considering the late antique paradigms on which medieval Christian conversion narratives were based, Szpiech juxtaposes Christian stories with contemporary accounts of conversion to Islam and Judaism. He emphasizes that polemical conflict between Abrahamic religions in the medieval Mediterranean centered on competing visions of history and salvation. By seeing conversion not as an individual experience but as a public narrative, Conversion and Narrative provides a new, interdisciplinary perspective on medieval writing about religious disputes.
