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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Bibliografische gegevens
Hoofdauteur: Cohen, Jeremy, 1953-
Formaat: Licensed eBooks
Taal:Engels
Gepubliceerd in: Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press ©1999.
Reeks:S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies.
Online toegang:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt4cgfgv
Inhoudsopgave:
  • Augustinian foundations. The doctrine of Jewish witness
  • The Augustinian legacy in the early middle ages : adaptation, reinterpretation, resistance. Gregory the great : between sicut iudaeis and adversus iudaeos ; Isidore of Seville : anti-Judaism and the hermeneutics of integration ; Agobard of Lyons : battling the enemies of Christian unity
  • Reconceptualizing Jewish disbelief in the twelfth century. Reason in defense of faith : from Anselm of Canterbury to Peter Alfonsi ; Against the backdrop of holy war : Bernard of Clairvaux and Peter the venerable ; Renaissance men and their dreams
  • The friars reconsidered. Judaism as heresy : thirteenth-century churchmen and the Talmud ; Ambiguities of Thomistic synthesis.