Overview

The delicate balance between toleration and repulsion of the Jews, a tiny minority living within the Christian world, stands at the center of studies of religion and society. The development of this difficult relationship on many levels, theological, institutional, and individual, is a matter of continuing relevance in religious history from ancient to contemporary contexts. This volume, written by the leading scholars of Jewish-Christian engagement, seeks to revisit the question in light of new sources and re-readings of older sources. The old view of two implacable enemies battling for their version of truth, of Jews living as insular pariahs within a hostile world, the tale of persecution by the mighty of the weak, has given way to a much more nuanced understanding of areas of congruence, of cultural, economic, and social interchange. The volume examines changes in the Christian posture toward the Jews occurring in a time and place of tremendous cultural and religious creativity in Western European society. It seeks to understand how Jews integrated elements of Christian culture into their own. The volume spans some of the key turning points in the Jewish-Christian relationship and re-examines critical texts, religious disputations, and cultural interactions.

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...a book filled with valuable new contributions to the field of Jewish-Christian relations. It is recommended for all research collections in Judaica, as well as those in Jewish-Christian relations. - James P. Rosenbloom, Judaica Librarian, Brandeis University, in: AJL Reviews (2012) All in all, [...] the volume offers an impressive number of very insightful articles which are disposed so as to offer an extremely rich and differentiated picture of the various processes of delimitation, superimposition, rapprochement and, above all, identity-building of two religions in their direct and indirect interactions. - Alexander Fidora, ICREA/Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, in: Journal of Transcultural Medieval Studies, 1:2 (2014) In addition to fresh perspectives and a good survey of the variety of recent approaches to the historical study of Jewish-Christian relations, this volume is also of interest to students of interreligious relations more broadly defined and of the evolvement of religious identity and to those interested in the reception of the Bible. - C. Stenschke, in: Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses, 94:1 (2018) This is but one example of a book filled with valuable new contributions to the field of Jewish-Christian relations. It is recommended for all research collections in Judaica, as well as those in Jewish-Christian relations. - James P. Rosenbloom, Judaica Librarian, Brandeis University, in: Association of Jewish Libraries Reviews, 2:3 (2012)

...a book filled with valuable new contributions to the field of Jewish-Christian relations. It is recommended for all research collections in Judaica, as well as those in Jewish-Christian relations. James P. Rosenbloom, Judaica Librarian, Brandeis University, AJL Reviews September/October 2012

...a book filled with valuable new contributions to the field of Jewish-Christian relations. It is recommended for all research collections in Judaica, as well as those in Jewish-Christian relations. -James P. Rosenbloom, Judaica Librarian, Brandeis University, AJL Reviews (2012) All in all, [...] the volume offers an impressive number of very insightful articles which are disposed so as to offer an extremely rich and differentiated picture of the various processes of delimitation, superimposition, rapprochement and, above all, identity-building of two religions in their direct and indirect interactions. -Alexander Fidora, ICREA/Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Journal of Transcultural Medieval Studies, vol.1, no.2 (2014) In addition to fresh perspectives and a good survey of the variety of recent approaches to the historical study of Jewish-Christian relations, this volume is also of interest to students of interreligious relations more broadly defined and of the evolvement of religious identity and to those interested in the reception of the Bible. -C. Stenschke, Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses, vol.94, no.1 (2018) This is but one example of a book filled with valuable new contributions to the field of Jewish-Christian relations. It is recommended for all research collections in Judaica, as well as those in Jewish-Christian relations. -James P. Rosenbloom, Judaica Librarian, Brandeis University, Association of Jewish Libraries Reviews, vol.2, no.3 (2012)

Author Information

Elisheva Carlebach is Salo Baron Professor of Jewish History, Culture and Society at Columbia University. Jacob J. Schacter is University Professor of Jewish History and Jewish Thought at Yeshiva University.

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