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In Living Letters of the Law, Jeremy Cohen investigates the images of Jews and Judaism in the works of medieval Christian theologians from Augustine to Thomas Aquinas. He reveals how--and why--medieval Christianity fashioned a Jew on the basis of its reading of the Bible, and how this hermeneutically crafted Jew assumed distinctive character and power in Christian thought and culture.
Augustine's doctrine of Jewish witness, which constructed the Jews so as to mandate their survival in a properly ordered Christian world, is the starting point for this illuminating study. Cohen demonstrates how adaptations of this doctrine reflected change in the self-consciousness of early medieval civilization. After exploring the effect of twelfth-century Europe's encounter with Islam on the value of Augustine's Jewish witnesses, he concludes with a new assessment of the reception of Augustine's ideas among thirteenth-century popes and friars.
Consistently linking the medieval idea of the Jew with broader issues of textual criticism, anthropology, and the philosophy of history, this book demonstrates the complex significance of Christianity's "hermeneutical Jew" not only in the history of antisemitism but also in the broad scope of Western intellectual history.
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"Well, clearly, and articulately written, Living Letters of the Law is among the most important books in medieval European history generally, as well as in its particular field."--Edward Peters, author of The First Crusade
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In Living Letters of the Law, Jeremy Cohen investigates the images of Jews and Judaism in the works of medieval Christian theologians from Augustine to Thomas Aquinas. He reveals how--and why--medieval Christianity fashioned a Jew on the basis of its reading of the Bible, and how this hermeneutically crafted Jew assumed distinctive character and power in Christian thought and culture.
Augustine's doctrine of Jewish witness, which constructed the Jews so as to mandate their survival in a properly ordered Christian world, is the starting point for this illuminating study. Cohen demonstrates how adaptations of this doctrine reflected change in the self-consciousness of early medieval civilization. After exploring the effect of twelfth-century Europe's encounter with Islam on the value of Augustine's Jewish witnesses, he concludes with a new assessment of the reception of Augustine's ideas among thirteenth-century popes and friars.
Consistently linking the medieval idea of the Jew with broader issues of textual criticism, anthropology, and the philosophy of history, this book demonstrates the complex significance of Christianity's "hermeneutical Jew" not only in the history of antisemitism but also in the broad scope of Western intellectual history.
From the Inside Flap
"Well, clearly, and articulately written, Living Letters of the Law is among the most important books in medieval European history generally, as well as in its particular field."--Edward Peters, author of The First Crusade
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Augustine of Hippo (354-430) lived during an age of transitions. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
useless antiquity, adversus ludaeos, ceremonial precepts, doctrina cbristiana, ceremonial commandments, testimonial function, figurative exegesis, rabbinic homilies, willful malice, terrestrial history, second disputation, voluntary ignorance, medieval career, fide catholica, other infidels, medieval churchmen, living letters, planctu naturae, literal observance, vera religione, talmudic rabbis, sixth age, religious polemic Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Peter the Venerable, Cur Deus, New York, Thomas Aquinas, Raymond Martin, Bernard of Clairvaux, Gregory the Great, Gilbert Crispin, Jeremy Cohen, Pope Gregory, Peter Alfonsi, First Crusade, Guibert of Nogent, Pope Innocent, Peter Abelard, Paul Christian, Anna Sapir Abulafia, The Friars Reconsidered, Bernhard Blumenkranz, Robert Chazan, Isidore of Seville, Moyen Age, Second Crusade, New Testament, Reconceptualizing Jewish Disbelief New!
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Augustine of Hippo (354-430) lived during an age of transitions. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
useless antiquity, adversus ludaeos, ceremonial precepts, doctrina cbristiana, ceremonial commandments, testimonial function, figurative exegesis, rabbinic homilies, willful malice, terrestrial history, second disputation, voluntary ignorance, medieval career, fide catholica, other infidels, medieval churchmen, living letters, planctu naturae, literal observance, vera religione, talmudic rabbis, sixth age, religious polemic Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Peter the Venerable, Cur Deus, New York, Thomas Aquinas, Raymond Martin, Bernard of Clairvaux, Gregory the Great, Gilbert Crispin, Jeremy Cohen, Pope Gregory, Peter Alfonsi, First Crusade, Guibert of Nogent, Pope Innocent, Peter Abelard, Paul Christian, Anna Sapir Abulafia, The Friars Reconsidered, Bernhard Blumenkranz, Robert Chazan, Isidore of Seville, Moyen Age, Second Crusade, New Testament, Reconceptualizing Jewish Disbelief New!
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- The Friars and the Jews: Evolution of Medieval Anti-Judaism by Jeremy Cohen on 8 pages
- Crusade and Mission: European Approaches Toward the Muslims by Benjamin Z. Kedar on 7 pages
- Augustine of Hippo: A Biography (New Edition, with an Epilogue) by Peter Brown on 6 pages
- Christianity and Judaism (Studies in Church History) by Diana Wood on 6 pages
- Apostolic See and the Jews - Documents 492-1404 (Studies and Texts) by Shlomo Simonsohn on 5 pages
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- Hebraica Veritas?: Christian Hebraists and the Study of Judaism in Early Modern Europe (Jewish Culture and Contexts) by Allison P. Coudert on page 3, page 28, and page 176
- Quodvultdeus of Carthage: The Creedal Homilies (Ancient Christian Writers, No. 60) by Thomas M. Finn in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Reckless Rites: Purim and the Legacy of Jewish Violence (Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World) by Elliott Horowitz on page 153, and page 190
- Chaucer and the Jews (The Multicultural Middle Ages, 1) by Delaney on page 40, and Back Matter
- Women, Wealth And Community in Perpignan, c. 1250-1300: Christians, Jews And Enslaved Muslims in a Medieval Mediterranean Town by Rebecca Lynn Winer in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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