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Authors: Robert Chazan
ISBN-13: 9780521831840, ISBN-10: 0521831849
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: December 2003
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Robert Chazan is Scheuer Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, New York University.
This study examines the techniques of persuasion adopted by the Jewish polemicists.
Foreword | ||
Short titles for frequently cited works | ||
Introduction | 1 | |
1 | Jesus and the Jews: the Gospel accounts | 25 |
2 | Post-Gospel Christian argumentation: continuities and expansions | 46 |
3 | Pre-twelfth-century Jewish argumentation | 67 |
4 | The Jewish polemicists of southern France and northern Spain | 91 |
5 | Scriptural and alternative lines of argumentation | 122 |
6 | Biblical prophecy: messianic advent | 143 |
7 | Biblical prophecy: the Messiah reviled and vindicated | 162 |
8 | Biblical prophecy and empirical observation: displacement of the Jews | 181 |
9 | Biblical prophecy: redemption of the Jews | 198 |
10 | Biblical prophecy and empirical observation: Christian failures | 215 |
11 | Biblical prophecy: the Messiah human and divine | 233 |
12 | Human reason: the Messiah human and divine | 250 |
13 | Christian Scripture and Jesus | 281 |
14 | Comparative behaviors: Jewish achievement and Christian shortcoming | 298 |
15 | Techniques of persuasion | 317 |
16 | Fashioning identities - other and self | 339 |
Bibliography | 360 | |
Index of subjects and proper names | 373 | |
Scripture index | 377 |