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Two Nations in Your Womb: Perceptions of Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages
Israel Jacob Yuval
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Paperback. 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 of Christianity and Judaism. Translator(s): Harshav, Barbara; Chipman, Jonathan. Num Pages: 338 pages, 6 b/w photographs, 2 tables. BIC Classification: HRAX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 25. Weight in Grams: 538. Perceptions of Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. 338 pages, Illustrations. 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 of Christianity and Judaism. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: HRAX. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 25. Weight: 508. Translator(s): Harshav, Barbara; Chipman, Jonathan.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
338
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Weight
532g
Number of Pages
338
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520258181
SKU
V9780520258181
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About Israel Jacob Yuval
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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