Mission to the Jews and Jewish-Christian Contacts in the Polemical Literature of the High Middle Ages

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1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. INTRODUCTION ix
4. Spanning The Centuries
5. Anti-Semitism: An Overview 3
6. The Middle Ages
7. From Crusades to Blood Libels to Expulsions: Some New Approaches to Medieval Anti-Semitism 15
8. A Generation of Scholarship on Jewish-Christian Interaction in the Medieval World 40
9. Jacob Katz on Jews and Christians in the Middle Ages 51
10. Introduction to Th e Jewish-Christian Debate in the High Middle Ages: A Critical Edition of the Nizzahon Vetus with an Introduction, Translation, and Commentary 75
11. On the Image and Destiny of Gentiles in Ashkenazic Polemical Literature 109
12. On the Uses of History in Medieval Jewish Polemic against Christianity: Th e Quest for the Historical Jesus 139
13. Christians, Gentiles, and the Talmud: A Fourteenth-Century Jewish Response to the Attack on Rabbinic Judaism 158
14. Mission to the Jews and Jewish-Christian Contacts in the Polemical Literature of the High Middle Ages 177
15. The Barcelona Disputation: Review Essay 199
16. Christian Heresy and Jewish Polemic in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 209
17. Gilbert Crispin, Alan of Lille, and Jacob Ben Reuben: A Study in the Transmission of Medieval Polemic 227
18. The Attitude of St. Bernard of Clairvaux toward the Jews 245
19. St. Peter Damian: His Attitude toward the Jews and the Old Testament 261
20. Modern and Contemporary Times
21. Religion, Nationalism, and Historiography: Yehezkel Kaufmann’s Account of Jesus and Early Christianity 291
22. The “Jewish Contribution” to Christianity 312
23. Jewish-Christian Relations: A Jewish Perspective 333
24. Reflections on Conversion and Proselytizing in Judaism and Christianity 367
25. On Dominus Iesus and the Jews 378
26. Revisiting “Confrontation” After Forty Years: A Response to Rabbi Eugene Korn 385
27. Dabru Emet: Some Reservations about a Jewish Statement on Christians and Christianity 392
28. Jews, Christians, and The Passion 399
29. Index of Sources 417
30. Index 420