Studies in Medieval Jewish Intellectual and Social History
Studies in Medieval Jewish Intellectual and Social History
Edited by David Engel, Lawrence Schiffmann, and Elliot Wolfson, New York University. Managing Editor Yechiel Schur
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Biographical note
David Engel is Greenberg Professor of Holocaust Studies, Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, and Professor of History at New York University. He is the author of six books, including, most recently, Historians of the Jews and the Holocaust (Stanford, 2010).
Lawrence H. Schiffman is the Ethel and Irving A. Edelman Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University. Among his books are Reclaiming the Dead Sea Scrolls (1994), From Text to Tradition (1989), and Sectarian Law in the Dead Sea Scrolls (1983).
Elliot R. Wolfson is the Abraham Lieberman Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies in New York University. He has published extensively on Jewish philosophy and mysticism, including Through the Speculum That Shines: Vision and Imagination in Medieval Jewish Mysticism (1994), Language, Eros, and Being: Kabbalistic Hermeneutics and the Poetic Imagination (2005), Open Secret: Postmessianic Messianism and the Mystical Revision of Menahem Mendel Schneerson (2009), and, most recently, A Dream Interpreted within a Dream: Oneiropoiesis and the Prism of Imagination (2011).
Lawrence H. Schiffman is the Ethel and Irving A. Edelman Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University. Among his books are Reclaiming the Dead Sea Scrolls (1994), From Text to Tradition (1989), and Sectarian Law in the Dead Sea Scrolls (1983).
Elliot R. Wolfson is the Abraham Lieberman Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies in New York University. He has published extensively on Jewish philosophy and mysticism, including Through the Speculum That Shines: Vision and Imagination in Medieval Jewish Mysticism (1994), Language, Eros, and Being: Kabbalistic Hermeneutics and the Poetic Imagination (2005), Open Secret: Postmessianic Messianism and the Mystical Revision of Menahem Mendel Schneerson (2009), and, most recently, A Dream Interpreted within a Dream: Oneiropoiesis and the Prism of Imagination (2011).
Readership
All interested in Judaism, the history and culture of the Jews in the Middle Ages, the history of Western Christendom, and Jewish-Christian relations.
Reviews
"This book is highly recommended for any research collection on Jewish history."
James P. Rosenbloom, Judaica Librarian, Brandeis University, AJL Reviews September/October 2012
James P. Rosenbloom, Judaica Librarian, Brandeis University, AJL Reviews September/October 2012
Table of contents
Introduction
David Engel, Lawrence H. Schiffman, and Elliot Wolfson
Guilbert of Nogent and William of Flay and the Problem of Jewish Conversion at the Time of the First Crusade
Anna Sapir-Abulafia
Rashi's Choice: The Humash Commentary as Rewritten Midrash
Ivan G. Marcus
The Commentary of Rashi on Isaiah and the Jewish-Christian Debate
Avraham Grossman
Were Jews Made in the Image of God? Christian Perspectives and Jewish Existence in Medieval Europe
Brigitte Miriam Bedos-Rezak
Jewish Knowledge of Christianity in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
Daniel J. Lasker
Dreams as a Determinant of Jewish Law and Practice in Northern Europe during the High Middle Ages
Ephraim Kanarfogel
Orality and Literacy: The French Tosaphists
Gérard Nahon
Torah and the Messianic Age: The Polemical and Exegetical History of a Rabbinic Text
David Berger
Textual Flesh, Incarnation, and the Imaginal Body: Abraham Abulafia's Polemic with Christianity
Elliot R. Wolfson
The Jewish Cemeteries of France after the Expulsion of 1306
William Chester Jordan
The Cruel Jewish Father: From Miracle to Murder
Kenneth Stow
From Solomon bar Samson to Solomon ibn Verga: Tales and Ideas of Jewish Martyrdom in Shevet Yehudah
Jeremy Cohen
Salo Baron's View of the Middle Ages in Jewish History: Early Sources
David Engel
Bibliography of the Works of Robert Chazan
Yechiel Schur
David Engel, Lawrence H. Schiffman, and Elliot Wolfson
Guilbert of Nogent and William of Flay and the Problem of Jewish Conversion at the Time of the First Crusade
Anna Sapir-Abulafia
Rashi's Choice: The Humash Commentary as Rewritten Midrash
Ivan G. Marcus
The Commentary of Rashi on Isaiah and the Jewish-Christian Debate
Avraham Grossman
Were Jews Made in the Image of God? Christian Perspectives and Jewish Existence in Medieval Europe
Brigitte Miriam Bedos-Rezak
Jewish Knowledge of Christianity in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
Daniel J. Lasker
Dreams as a Determinant of Jewish Law and Practice in Northern Europe during the High Middle Ages
Ephraim Kanarfogel
Orality and Literacy: The French Tosaphists
Gérard Nahon
Torah and the Messianic Age: The Polemical and Exegetical History of a Rabbinic Text
David Berger
Textual Flesh, Incarnation, and the Imaginal Body: Abraham Abulafia's Polemic with Christianity
Elliot R. Wolfson
The Jewish Cemeteries of France after the Expulsion of 1306
William Chester Jordan
The Cruel Jewish Father: From Miracle to Murder
Kenneth Stow
From Solomon bar Samson to Solomon ibn Verga: Tales and Ideas of Jewish Martyrdom in Shevet Yehudah
Jeremy Cohen
Salo Baron's View of the Middle Ages in Jewish History: Early Sources
David Engel
Bibliography of the Works of Robert Chazan
Yechiel Schur
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