Description
Book SynopsisThe Salvation of Israel investigates Christianity''s eschatological Jew: the role and characteristics of the Jews at the end of days in the Christian imagination. It explores the depth of Christian ambivalence regarding these Jews, from Paul''s Epistle to the Romans, through late antiquity and the Middle Ages, to the Puritans of the seventeenth century. Jeremy Cohen contends that few aspects of a religion shed as much light on the character and the self-understanding of its adherents as its expectations for the end of time. Moreover, eschatological beliefs express and mold an outlook toward nonbelievers, situating them in an overall scheme of human history and conditioning interaction with them as that history unfolds.
Cohen''s close readings of biblical commentary, theological texts, and Christian iconography reveal the dual role of the Jews of the last days. For rejecting belief and salvation in Jesus Christ, they have been linked to the false messiahthe
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part I: All Israel Will Be Saved
1. Paul and the Mystery of Israel's Salvation
2. The Pauline Legacy: From Origen to Pelagius
3. The Latin West: From Augustine to Luther and Calvin
Part II: The Jews and Antichrist
4. Antichrist and the Jews in Early Christianity
5. Jews and the Many Faces of Antichrist in the Middle Ages
6. Antichrist and Jews in Literature, Drama, and Visual Arts
Part III: At the Forefront of the Redemption
7. Honorius Augustodunensis, the Song of Songs, and Synagoga Conversa
8. Jewish Converts and Christian Salvation: Pablo de Santa María, Bishop of Burgos
9. Puritans, Jews, and the End of Days
Afterword
