Living letters of the law : ideas of the Jew in medieval Christianity /
In Living Letters of the Law, Jeremy Cohen investigates the images of Jews and Judaism in the works of medieval Christian theologians from Augustine to Thomas Aquinas. He reveals how-and why-medieval Christianity fashioned a Jew on the basis of its reading of the Bible, and how this hermeneutically...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Idioma: | anglès |
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Berkeley, Calif. :
University of California Press
©1999.
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| Col·lecció: | S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies.
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| Accés en línia: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt4cgfgv |
| Sumari: | In Living Letters of the Law, Jeremy Cohen investigates the images of Jews and Judaism in the works of medieval Christian theologians from Augustine to Thomas Aquinas. He reveals how-and why-medieval Christianity fashioned a Jew on the basis of its reading of the Bible, and how this hermeneutically crafted Jew assumed distinctive character and power in Christian thought and culture. Augustine's doctrine of Jewish witness, which constructed the Jews so as to mandate their survival in a properly ordered Christian world, is the starting point for this illuminating study. |
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| Descripció física: | 1 online resource (x, 451 pages) |
| Bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 401-435) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520922914 0520922913 0585370087 9780585370088 0520216806 0520218701 |