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The Insight of Unbelievers : Nicholas of Lyra and Christian Reading of Jewish Text in the Later Middle Ages.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Jewish Culture and Contexts SeriesPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008Copyright date: ©2007Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (234 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780812200393
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Insight of UnbelieversDDC classification:
  • 261.2/6094409023
LOC classification:
  • BM535 -- .K5554 2007eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Medieval Christian Use of Hebrew and Postbiblical Jewish Texts -- 2 Nicholas of Lyra, O.F.M.: Mediating Hebrew Traditions for a Christian Audience -- 3 The Challenge of Unbelief: Knowing Christian Truth Through Jewish Scripture -- 4 Wrestling with Rashi: Nicholas of Lyra's Quodlibetal Questions and Anti-Jewish Polemic -- 5 Christian Ownership of Jewish Text: Nicholas of Lyra as an Alternative Jewish Authority -- Appendix: Manuscripts Consulted Containing Nicholas of Lyra's Quaestio de adventu Christi -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z -- Acknowledgments.
Summary: By carefully examining the place of Hebrew and rabbinic traditions in the Christian study of the Bible, The Insight of Unbelievers elaborates in new ways on the relationship between Christian and Jewish scholarship and polemic in late medieval Europe.
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Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Medieval Christian Use of Hebrew and Postbiblical Jewish Texts -- 2 Nicholas of Lyra, O.F.M.: Mediating Hebrew Traditions for a Christian Audience -- 3 The Challenge of Unbelief: Knowing Christian Truth Through Jewish Scripture -- 4 Wrestling with Rashi: Nicholas of Lyra's Quodlibetal Questions and Anti-Jewish Polemic -- 5 Christian Ownership of Jewish Text: Nicholas of Lyra as an Alternative Jewish Authority -- Appendix: Manuscripts Consulted Containing Nicholas of Lyra's Quaestio de adventu Christi -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z -- Acknowledgments.

By carefully examining the place of Hebrew and rabbinic traditions in the Christian study of the Bible, The Insight of Unbelievers elaborates in new ways on the relationship between Christian and Jewish scholarship and polemic in late medieval Europe.

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