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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,
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,