RT Book
T1 Fashioning Jewish identity in medieval western Christendom
A1 Chazan, Robert
LA English
PP Cambridge
PB Cambridge University Press
YR 2004
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/883479125
AB During the course of the twelfth century, increasing numbers of Jews migrated into dynamically developing western Christendom from Islamic lands. The vitality that attracted them also presented a challenge: Christianity - from early in its history - had proclaimed itself heir to a failed Jewish community and thus the vitality of western Christendom was both appealing and threatening to the Jewish immigrants. Indeed, western Christendom was entering a phase of intense missionising activity, some of which was directed at the long-term Jewish residents of Europe and the Jewish newcomers. This 2003 study examines the techniques of persuasion adopted by the Jewish polemicists in order to reassure their Jewish readers of the truth of Judaism and the error of Christianity. At the very deepest level, these Jewish authors sketched out for their fellow Jews a comparative portrait of Christian and Jewish societies - the former powerful but irrational and morally debased, the latter the weak but reasonable and morally elevated - urging that the obvious and sensible choice was Judaism.
NO Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
CN BM590
SN 9780511496431
K1 Jesus Christ : Messiahship
K1 Jesus Christ
K1 Christianity : Controversial literature : History and criticism.
K1 Judaism : Apologetic works : History and criticism.
K1 Judaism : France, Southern : History, To 1500.
K1 Judaism : Spain, Northern : History, To 1500.
K1 Judaism : Apologetic works : History and criticism
K1 Judaism : France, Southern : History : To 1500
K1 Judaism : Spain, Northern : History : To 1500
K1 Christianity : Controversial literature : History and criticism
K1 Jesus Christ ; Messiahship
K1 Christianity ; Controversial literature ; History and criticism
K1 Judaism ; Apologetic works ; History and criticism
K1 Judaism ; France, Southern ; History ; To 1500
K1 Judaism ; Spain, Northern ; History ; To 1500
DO 10.1017/CBO9780511496431