Fashioning Jewish Identity in Medieval Western Christendom
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Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0521831849
ISBN 13
9780521831840
Category
Medieval History
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Publication Year
2004
Publisher
Pages
396
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Description
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. - from Amzon
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