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For more than four decades Robert Chazan has been a copious source of original insights into the history and culture of medieval European Jewry, challenging conventional wisdom with profound erudition and sober analysis. In this volume, thirteen leading Judaicists and medievalists engage subjects that have been of particular concern to Professor Chazan during his distinguished career: the history of the Jewish communities in Western Christendom during the Middle Ages, Jewish-Christian interactions in medieval Europe, medieval Jewish Biblical exegesis and religious literature, and historical representations of the experience of medieval Jewry. Taken together they offer a comprehensive portrait of the state of the field of medieval Jewish studies.
List of Contributors vii
Robert Chazan: In Appreciation and Friendship David Engel Lawrence H. Schiffman Elliot R. Wolfson 1
Guibert of Nogent and William of Flay and the Problem of Jewish Conversion at the Time of the First Crusade Anna Sapir Abulafia 9
Rashi's Choice: The Humash Commentary As Rewritten Midrash Ivan G. Marcus 29
The Commentary of Rashi on Isaiah and the Jewish-Christian Debate Avraham Grossman 47
Were Jews Made in the Image of God? Christian Perspectives and Jewish Existence in Medieval Europe Brigitte Miriam Bedos-Rezak 63
Jewish Knowledge of Christianity in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries Daniel J. Lasker 97
Dreams As a Determinant of Jewish Law and Practice in Northern Europe during the High Middle Ages Ephraim Kanarfogel 111
Orality and Literacy: The French Tosaphists Gérard Nahon 145
Torah and the Messianic Age: The Polemical and Exegetical History of a Rabbinic Text David Berger 169
Textual Flesh, Incarnation, and the Imaginal Body: Abraham Abulafia's Polemic with Christianity Elliot R. Wolfson 189
The Jewish Cemeteries of France after the Expulsion of 1306 William Chester Jordan 227
The Cruel Jewish Father: From Miracle to Murder Kenneth Stow 245
From Solomon Bar Samson to Solomon Ibn Verga: Tales and Ideas of Jewish Martyrdom in Shevet Yehudah Jeremy Cohen 279
Salo Baron's View of the Middle Ages in Jewish History: Early Sources David Engel 299
Bibliography of the Works of Robert Chazan Yechiel Y. Schur 317
Index 327
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For more than four decades Robert Chazan has been a copious source of original insights into the history and culture of medieval European Jewry, challenging conventional wisdom with profound erudition and sober analysis. In this volume, thirteen leading Judaicists and medievalists engage subjects that have been of particular concern to Professor Chazan during his distinguished career: the history of the Jewish communities in Western Christendom during the Middle Ages, Jewish-Christian interactions in medieval ...