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Investigates the images of Jews and Judaism in the works of medieval Christian theologians from Augustine to Thomas Aquinas. This book reveals how, and why, medieval Christianity fashioned a Jew on the basis of its reading of Bible, and how this hermeneutically crafted Jew assumed distinctive character and power in Christian thought and culture.

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
PART ONE: AUGUSTINIAN FOUNDATIONS
I. The Doctrine of Jewish Witness
PART TWO: THE AUGUSTINIAN LEGACY IN THE
EARLY MIDDLE AGES: ADAPTATION, REINTERPRETATION, RESISTANCE
2. Gregory the Great: Between Sicut Iudaeis and Adversus Iudaeos
3· Isidore of Seville: Anti-Judaism and the Hermeneutics of Integration
4· Agobard of Lyons: Battling the Enemies of Christian Unity
PART THREE: RECONCEPTUALIZING JEWISH DISBELIEF IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY
5· Reason in Defense of the Faith: From Anselm of Canterbury to Peter Alfonsi
6. Against the Backdrop of Holy War: Bernard of Clairvaux and Peter the Venerable
7· Renaissance Men and Their Dreams
PART FOUR: THE FRIARS RECONSIDERED
8. Judaism as Heresy: Thirteenth-Century Churchmen and the Talmud
9· Ambiguities of Thomistic Synthesis
Afterword
References
Index

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      Publisher: University of California Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 11/11/1999
      ISBN13: 9780520218703, 978-0520218703
      ISBN10: 0520218701

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Investigates the images of Jews and Judaism in the works of medieval Christian theologians from Augustine to Thomas Aquinas. This book reveals how, and why, medieval Christianity fashioned a Jew on the basis of its reading of Bible, and how this hermeneutically crafted Jew assumed distinctive character and power in Christian thought and culture.

      Table of Contents
      Acknowledgments
      List of Abbreviations
      Introduction
      PART ONE: AUGUSTINIAN FOUNDATIONS
      I. The Doctrine of Jewish Witness
      PART TWO: THE AUGUSTINIAN LEGACY IN THE
      EARLY MIDDLE AGES: ADAPTATION, REINTERPRETATION, RESISTANCE
      2. Gregory the Great: Between Sicut Iudaeis and Adversus Iudaeos
      3· Isidore of Seville: Anti-Judaism and the Hermeneutics of Integration
      4· Agobard of Lyons: Battling the Enemies of Christian Unity
      PART THREE: RECONCEPTUALIZING JEWISH DISBELIEF IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY
      5· Reason in Defense of the Faith: From Anselm of Canterbury to Peter Alfonsi
      6. Against the Backdrop of Holy War: Bernard of Clairvaux and Peter the Venerable
      7· Renaissance Men and Their Dreams
      PART FOUR: THE FRIARS RECONSIDERED
      8. Judaism as Heresy: Thirteenth-Century Churchmen and the Talmud
      9· Ambiguities of Thomistic Synthesis
      Afterword
      References
      Index

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