Hebraica Veritas?

Christian Hebraists and the Study of Judaism in Early Modern Europe
Herausgeber: Coudert, Allison P; Shoulson, Jeffrey S

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Hebraica Veritas? Christian Hebraists and the Study of Judaism in Early Modern Europe Edited by Allison P. Coudert and Jeffrey S. Shoulson "Superb. . . . Examining the Christian study of Hebrew and Jewish texts, mostly in early modern Europe (with some medieval materials included), the contributors probe the degree of positive interactions between Jews and Christian and also uncover heretofore-hidden Jewish contributions to the Western intellectual tradition."--Choice "An erudite collection of essays whose scholarship is clearly a match for the figures and writings which it is concerned."--Sixteenth Century Journal "Containing essays by many eminent scholars, the volume offers an excellent reassessment of the history of early modern Christian Hebraism, as well as of the history of Christian-Jewish relations."--Envoi In the early modern period, the religious fervor of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation, social unrest, and millenarianism all seemed to foster greater anti-Judaism in Christian Europe, yet the increased intolerance was also accompanied by more intimate and complex forms of interaction between Christians and Jews. Printing, trade, and travel combined to bring those from both sides of the religious divide into closer contact than ever before, while growing interest in magic and the Kabbalah encouraged Christians to study Hebrew in addition to Latin and Greek. In Hebraica Veritas? Christian Hebraists and the Study of Judaism in Early Modern Europe, noted scholars trace how these early modern encounters played key roles in defining attitudes toward personal, national, and religious identity in Western culture. As Christians increasingly patronized Jewish scholars, in person and in print, Christian Hebraism flourished. The twelve essays assembled here address the important but often neglected subject of the early modern encounter between Christians and Jews. They illustrate how this envolvement shaped each group's self-perception and sense of otherness and contributed to the emergence of the modern study of cultural anthropology, comparative religion, and Jewish studies. But the chapters also reveal how the encounter challenged traditional religious beliefs, fostering the skepticism, toleration, and irreligion conventionally associated with the Enlightenment. Many of the Christian Hebraists described in these essays were linguists and textual critics, and their work highlights the ambiguous role played by language and texts in transmitting natural and divine truth. It was during the early modern period that numerous concepts underpinning modern Western secular society came into existence, and as Hebraica Veritas? shows, the subject of Christian Hebraism has direct relevance to understanding the intellectual changes and challenges characterizing the transition from the ancient to the modern world. Allison P. Coudert is Professor of Religious Studies at Arizona State University. She is author of The Impact of the Kabbalah in the Seventeenth Century: The Life and Thought of Francis Mercury van Helmont, 1614-1698. Jeffrey S. Shoulson is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Program in Judaic Studies at the University of Miami. He is author of Milton and the Rabbis: Hebraism, Hellenism, and Christianity. Jewish Culture and Contexts 2004 328 pages 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 23 illus. ISBN 978-0-8122-3761-0 Cloth $69.95s £45.50 World Rights History, Religion Short copy: "Superb. . . The contributors probe the degree of positive interactions between Jews and Christian and also uncover heretofore-hidden Jewish contributions to the Western intellectual t

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Mai 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 161mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 689g
• ISBN-13: 9780812237610
• ISBN-10: 0812237617
• Artikelnr.: 21296774

Autorenporträt

Edited by Allison P. Coudert and Jeffrey S. Shoulson

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
—David B. Ruderman
1 Introduction
—Allison P. Coudert and Jeffrey S. Shoulson
I. NEGOTIATING DIALOGUE
2. Polemic and Exegesis: The Varieties of Twelfth-Century Hebraism
Michael A. Signer
3. Man as the "Possible" Entity in Some Jewish and Renaissance Sources
—Moshe Idel
4. Jews, Humanists and the Reappraisal of Pagan Wisdom Associated with the
Ideal of the Dignitas Hominis
—Fabrizio Lelli
5. The Mechanics of Christian-Jewish Intellectual Collaboration in
Seventeenth-Century Provence: N.-C. Fabri de Peiresc and Salomon Azubi
—Peter N. Miller
6. John Selden's De Jure Naturali . . . Juxta Disciplinam Ebraeorum and
Religious Toleration
—Jason P. Rosenblatt
7. Censorship, Editing, and the Reshaping of Jewish Identity: The Catholic
Church and Hebrew Literature in the Sixteenth Century
—Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin
II. IMAGINING DIFFERENCES
8. Skepticism and Conversion: Jews, Christians, and Doubters in Sefer
ha-Nizzahon
—Ora Limor and Israel Jacob Yuval
9. Reassessing the "Basel-Wittenburg Conflict": Dimensions of the
Reformation-Era Discussion of Hebrew Scholarship
—Stephen G. Burnett
10. Polemical Ethnographies: Descriptions of Yom Kippur in the Writings of
Christian Hebraists And Jewish Converts to Christianity in Early Modern
Europe
—Yaacov Deutsch
11. The "Jewish Quaker": Christian Perceptions of Sabbatai Zevi as an
Enthusiast
—Michael Heyd
12. Colliding Visions: Jewish Messianism and German Scholarship in the
Eighteenth Century
—Nils Roemer
13. Five Seventeenth-Century Christian Hebraists
—Allison P. Coudert
List of Contributors
Index
Acknowledgments