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Living letters of the law : ideas of the Jew in medieval Christianity /

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...

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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Cohen, Jeremy, 1953-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, ©1999.
Collection:S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies.
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Résumé: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.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (x, 451 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 401-435) and index.
ISBN:9780520922914
0520922913
0585370087
9780585370088