%0 Electronic Article %A Benarroch, Jonatan M. %I University of Chicago Press %D 2019 %G English %@ 1549-6538 %T "Christum qui est Hædus Iudaeis, Agnus Nobis": A Medieval Kabbalistic Response to the Patristic Exegesis on Exodus 23:19 %J The journal of religion %V 99 %N 3 %P 263-287 %U https://doi.org/10.1086/703363 %X The article discusses Kabbalistic medieval Jewish polemic against patristric Christian biblical exegesis of the biblical verse Exodus 23:19. Topics include the writings of the Christian theologians Augustine of Hippo and Ambrose of Milan, rabinnic exegesis by Rabbi Joseph of Hamadan and the Zohar, and Castilian Kabbalistic interpretations of a lamb as representing religious figure Jesus Christ.