Book: New Perspectives on Jewish-Christian Relations (Brill, 2012)

New Perspectives on Jewish-Christian Relations
In Honor of David Berger

Edited by
Elisheva Carlebach
Jacob J. Schacter

Leiden: Brill, 2012


Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction (by Elisheva Carlebach and Jacob J. Schacter)

CHRISTIAN TRIUMPHALISM AND ANTI-JEWISH VIOLENCE
On the Authenticity of the Testimonium Flavianum Attributed to Josephus (by Louis H. Feldman)
The Menorah and the Cross: Historiographical Reflections on a Recent Discovery from Laodicea on the Lycus (by Steven Fine)
Judaizing the Passion: The Case of the Crown of Thorns in the Middle Ages (by William Chester Jordan)
"Unless the Lord Watches Over the City...": Joan of Aragon and His Jews, June-October 1391 (by Benjamin R. Gampel)

CHRISTIAN MISSION AND JEWISH CONVERSION
Genesis 49:10 in Thirteenth-Century Christian Missionizing (by Robert Chazan)
The Different Hebrew Versions of the "Talmud Trial" of 1240 in Paris (by Judah Galinsky)
An Infant's Missionary Sermon Addressed to the Jews of Rome in 1553 (by Robert Bonfil)
Rabbi Jonathan Eibeschuetz and the Alleged Jewish-Christian Sect in Eighteenth-Century Amsterdam (by Sid Z. Leiman)

THE IMPRINT OF CHRISTIAN SOCIETY ON INTERNAL JEWISH CULTURAL PATTERNS
Seeking Sings? Jews, Christians, and Proof by Fire in Medieval Germany and Northern France (by Elisheva Baumgarten)
A Medieval Judeo-Spanish Poem on the Complementarity of Faith and Works and Its Intellectual Roots (by Bernard Septimus)
"Because Our Wives Trade and Do Business with Our Goods": Gender, Work, and Jewish-Christian Relations (by Debra Kaplan)

JEWISH EVALUATIONS OF CHRISTIANITY
Meiri and the Non-Jew: A Comparative Investigation (by Yaakov Elman)
Changing Attitudes toward Apostates in Tosafist Literature, Late Twelfth-Early Thirteenth Centuries (by Ephraim Kanarfogel)
The Portugese Jews of Amsterdam and the Status of Christians (by Miriam Bodian)
Rabbi Jacob Emden, Sabbatianism, and Frankism: Attitudes toward Christianity in the Eighteenth Century (by Jacob J. Schacter)

JEWISH POLEMICAL STRATEGIES IN LIGHT OF CHRISTIANITY AND ISLAM
Rashi's Position on Prophecy among the Nations and the Jewish-Christian Polemic (by Avraham Grossman)
Isaiah's Suffering Servant and the Jews: From the Nineteenth Century to the Ninth (by Elliott Horowitz)
Peshat or Polemics: The Case of Genesis 36 (by Martin I. Lockshin)
Maimonides' Attitude toward Christian Bible Hermeneutics in Light of Ealier Jewish Sources (by Mordechai Z. Cohen)
Karaism and Christianity: An Evolving Relationship (by Daniel J. Lasker)

CONTEMPORARY JEWISH CHRISTIAN RELATIONS
Morality, Liberalism, and Interfaith Dialogue (by David Shatz)
The Jewish People and Their Sacred Scriptures in the Christian Bible, by the Pontifical Biblical Commision (Rome, 2001) (by Michael Wyschogrod)

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