Two Nations in Your Womb: Perceptions of Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages - Brossura

Yuval, Isr\Xe6l Jacob

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0520258185 ISBN 13: 9780520258181

Casa editrice: University of California Press, 2008

Riassunto

Since it was first published in Hebrew in 2000, this provocative book has been garnering acclaim and stirring controversy for its bold reinterpretation of the relationship between Judaism and Christianity in the Middle Ages, especially in medieval Europe. Looking at a remarkably wide array of source material, Israel Jacob Yuval argues that the inter-religious polemic between Judaism and Christianity served as a substantial component in the mutual formation of each of the two religions. He investigates ancient Jewish Passover rituals; Jewish martyrs in the Rhineland who in 1096 killed their own children; Christian perceptions of those ritual killings; and events of the year 1240, when Jews in northern France and Germany expected the Messiah to arrive. Looking below the surface of these key moments, Yuval finds that, among other things, the impact of Christianity on Talmudic and medieval Judaism was much stronger than previously assumed and that a "rejection of Christianity" became a focal point of early Jewish identity. Two Nations in Your Womb will reshape our understanding of Jewish and Christian life in late antiquity and over the centuries.

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L'autore:

Israel Jacob Yuval is a professor for Jewish History and the Academic Head of "Scholion-Interdisciplinary Research Center in Jewish Studies" at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is author of Scholars in Their Time: The Religious Leadership of German Jewry in the Late Middle Ages (1988).

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Book by Yuval Isrl Jacob

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• Editore: University of California Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0520258185
• ISBN 13: 9780520258181
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 338