The Discussion of the Messiah in Crescas’s Refutation

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgement VII
3. Contents IX
4. I On Daniel J. Lasker and his Scholarship
5. Prof. Daniel J. Lasker – Scholar, Teacher, and Friend 1
6. Daniel J. Lasker and His Treatment of Jewish Polemics 9
7. List of Publications 19
8. II Jewish Polemics and Exegesis in the Islamicate World
9. Polemical Logic: Al-Muqammaṣ’s Refutation of Christianity 37
10. The Role of Gog in Daniel al-Qūmisī’s Eschatology 59
11. Theological Consideration of the Gift of the Land and the Radical Treatment of the “Seven Nations” in Medieval Judeo-Arabic Exegesis 77
12. Epistemology in the Service of Polemic: Yūsuf al-Baṣīr’s Kitāb al-Istiʿānah: Text and Translation 97
13. Maimonides on the Status of Judaism 135
14. Abraham Maimonides on Reclaiming Judaism’s Lost “Perfection” from the “Imperfection” of Islam 165
15. III Jewish and Anti-Jewish Polemic and Exegesis in the Christian World
16. Abraham bar Ḥiyya (d. ca. 1136) on “The Pure Soul” 201
17. Asmakhtaʾ and Abraham ibn Ezra’s Exegesis 229
18. The Finding of the “True Cross” in Judah Hadassi’s Eškol ha-Kofer and the Polemical Parody Toledot Yešu 251
19. The Book of Nestor the Priest and the Toledot Yešu in the Polemics of Abner of Burgos/Alfonso of Valladolid 269
20. Rashi on Isaiah 53: Exegetical Judgment or Response to the Crusade? 301
21. “The Best of Snakes. . .”: A Polemical Midrash in the Rashi Supercommentary Tradition 317
22. The Discussion of the Messiah in Crescas’s Refutation 347
23. Joshua Ha-Lorki on the Meaning of Emunah: Between Religion and Faith 363
24. Jewish Anti-Semites: The Case of Medieval Apostates 383
25. Daniel in the Lions’ Den: Jewish-Christian Polemics in Medieval Text and Image 413
26. IV Jewish-Jewish and Jewish-Christian Relations
27. Understanding the Uneven Reception of Rabbenu Tam’s Taqqanot 437
28. Ritual Imagery Gone Wrong: A Fifteenth-Century Siddur in a Christian Workshop 467
29. Transliteration Charts 507
30. Index of Names 509