Robert John Clines

A Jewish Jesuit in the Eastern Mediterranean

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Produktbeschreibung

Recounts a Jewish-born Catholic priest's effort to prove he was Catholic to anyone who doubted him, including himself.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 611g
• ISBN-13: 9781108485340
• ISBN-10: 1108485340
• Artikelnr.: 56789590

Autorenporträt

Robert John Clines is a scholar of the history and culture of the early modern Mediterranean world. A recipient of a Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome, he has also held fellowships from the US-Italy Fulbright Commission, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the University of Cambridge.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Becoming a Jewish Jesuit: Eliano's early years; 2. Jesuit missionary or
Jewish renegade? Eliano's confrontation with his Jewish past; 3. Jesuit
anti-Judaism and the fear of Eliano's Jewishness on the first mission to
the Maronites of Lebanon; 4. Textual transmission, pastoral ministry, and
the re-fashioning of Eliano's intellectual training; 5. Revisiting Eliano's
Jewishness on his return to Egypt; 6. The Coptic mission, Mediterranean
geopolitics, and the mediation of Eliano's Jewish and Catholic identities;
7. Eliano's reconciliation with his Jewishness in his later years.