Robert ChazanFashioning Jewish Identity in Medieval Western Christendom
Robert Chazan is Scheuer Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, New York University.
Foreword
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Introduction
Part I. Backdrop: 1. Jesus and the Jews: the gospel accounts
2. Post-Gospel Christian argumentation: continuities and expansions
3. Pre-twelfth-century Jewish argumentation
Part II. Data and Foundations: 4. The Jewish polemicists of southern France and northern Spain
5. Scriptural and alternative lines of argumentation
Part III. Jesus as Messiah: 6. Biblical prophecy: messianic advent
7. Biblical prophecy: the Messiah reviled and vindicated
Part IV. Rejection of the Messiah and Rejection of the Jews: 8. Biblical prophecy and empirical observation: displacement of the Jews
9. Biblical prophecy: redemption of the Jews
10. Biblical prophecy and empirical observation: Christian failures
Part V. The Messiah Human and Divine: 11. Biblical prophecy: the Messiah human and divine
12. Human reason: the Messiah human and divine
Part VI. Jewish Polemicists on the Attack: 13. Christian Scripture and Jesus
14. Comparative behaviors: Jewish achievement and Christian shortcoming
Part VII. Underlying Issues: 15. Techniques of persuasion
16. Fashioning identities: other and self
Bibliography
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Scripture index.