{"product_id":"living-letters-of-the-law-9780520218703","title":"Living Letters of the Law","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInvestigates 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments \u003cbr\u003e List of Abbreviations \u003cbr\u003e Introduction \u003cbr\u003e PART ONE: AUGUSTINIAN FOUNDATIONS \u003cbr\u003e I. The Doctrine of Jewish Witness \u003cbr\u003e PART TWO: THE AUGUSTINIAN LEGACY IN THE\u003cbr\u003e EARLY MIDDLE AGES: ADAPTATION, REINTERPRETATION, RESISTANCE \u003cbr\u003e 2. Gregory the Great: Between Sicut Iudaeis and Adversus Iudaeos \u003cbr\u003e 3· Isidore of Seville: Anti-Judaism and the Hermeneutics of Integration \u003cbr\u003e 4· Agobard of Lyons: Battling the Enemies of Christian Unity \u003cbr\u003e PART THREE: RECONCEPTUALIZING JEWISH DISBELIEF IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY \u003cbr\u003e 5· Reason in Defense of the Faith: From Anselm of Canterbury to Peter Alfonsi \u003cbr\u003e 6. Against the Backdrop of Holy War: Bernard of Clairvaux and Peter the Venerable \u003cbr\u003e 7· Renaissance Men and Their Dreams \u003cbr\u003e PART FOUR: THE FRIARS RECONSIDERED \u003cbr\u003e 8. Judaism as Heresy: Thirteenth-Century Churchmen and the Talmud \u003cbr\u003e 9· Ambiguities of Thomistic Synthesis \u003cbr\u003e Afterword \u003cbr\u003e References \u003cbr\u003e Index ","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402809516375,"sku":"9780520218703","price":31.35,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/living-letters-of-the-law-9780520218703","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}