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The Jewish dialogue with Greece and Rome
BRILL 2000; US$ 85.00This title includes 27 interdisciplinary essays on aspects of Judaism in the Greco-Roman world, exemplifying a wide range of techniques, by a well-known scholar. Three are previously unpublished, including a reappraisal of the Judaism and Hellenism debate and a study of the Sardis synagogue. more...
The Origins of Anti-Semitism
Oxford University Press 1985; US$ 34.00A revisionist reading of early anti-Judaism, in which the author challenges the prevailing opinion and offers a detailed picture of the Jews and Christians of antiquity. more...
Christian Attitudes toward the Jews in the Middle Ages
CRC Press 2006; US$ 95.00Drawing from an equally wide range of sources-sermons, polemical texts, theological treatises, hagiographical and devotional works, and histories-the volume demonstrates the emergence of a profoundly negative image of the Jews that established many of the stereotypes of classic Christian anti-Semitism. The volume, in particular, argues that the essential... more...
A History of Catholic Antisemitism
Palgrave Macmillan 2008; US$ 29.00Moving from the Catholic Church_s pagan origins, through the Roman era, middle ages, and Reformation to the present, Robert Michael here provides a definitive history of Catholic antisemitism. more...
Wisdom in Early Confucian and Israelite Traditions
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2007; US$ 114.95Wisdom is an integral part of all philosophical and religious traditions in the world. Focusing on the concept of wisdom, this book examines the difficulties and problems facing comparative studies of the early Confucian and Israelite traditions by exploring the cosmological and ethical implications of wisdom in the older layers of Christian and Confucian... more...
Jews and Christians
Continuum International Publishing 2006; US$ 170.00Focuses on the interconnected subjects of polemic and biblical interpretation. Nine chapters are concerned with the ancient world, beginning with post-exilic Jewish writing and the New Testament and going on to later pagan, Jewish and Christian controversies. Three chapters concentrate on medieval and early modern Jewish apologetic. more...
Living Together, Living Apart
Princeton University Press 2009; US$ 31.95This book challenges the standard conception of the Middle Ages as a time of persecution for Jews. Jonathan Elukin traces the experience of Jews in Europe from late antiquity through the Renaissance and Reformation, revealing how the pluralism of medieval society allowed Jews to feel part of their local communities despite recurrent expressions of... more...
The Unconverted Self
University of Chicago Press 2009; US$ 30.00Europe’s formative encounter with its “others” is still widely assumed to have come with its discovery of the peoples of the New World. But, as Jonathan Boyarin argues, long before 1492 Christian Europe imagined itself in distinction to the Jewish difference within. The presence and image of Jews in Europe afforded the Christian... more...
Die Entdeckung des Christentums in der Wissenschaft des Judentums
De Gruyter 2010; US$ 147.00This collective volume explores an aspect ofthe ?Science of Judaism? which has received little attention up until now. In common use, this term is almost exclusively associated with the scholarly analysis of Judaism. In contrast, the authors of this volume illuminate the different encounters of Jewish scholars with Christianity and the impact of these... more...
People of God
Continuum International Publishing 1983; US$ 65.00It makes no sense to do theological work in an ivory tower. The necessity of defining the concept 'people of God' may be illustrated by at least four elements of present-day experience: the baffling fate and often shocking politics of the State of Israel since the six-day war in 1967; the anti-Jewish elements which still shame many books written... more...









