Authors: Sara Lipton
ISBN-13: 9780520215511, ISBN-10: 0520215516
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: University of California Press
Date Published: September 1999
Edition: New Edition
Sara Lipton is Assistant Professor of History at State University of New York, Stony Brook.
"The book addresses a hot topic, using a source that has nowhere been given the attention it deserves. The arguments are subtle, persuasive, and frequently brilliant. It will appeal to a wide reading publicthose interested in Jewish history, medieval art history, and the history of France."William C. Jordan, author of The Great Famine
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Acknowledgments | ||
Introduction | 1 | |
1 | A Discernible Difference: The Image of the Jew | 14 |
2 | The Root of All Evil: Jews, Money, and Metaphor | 30 |
3 | The People of the Book: Old Law, New Rituals, and the Word of God | 54 |
4 | The Sign of the Cat: Jews and Heretics in the Bible moralisee | 82 |
5 | In an Eternal Fire: Polemic, Policy, and the Fate of the Jews | 112 |
Conclusion | 136 | |
Abbreviations | 143 | |
Notes | 145 | |
Bibliography | 215 | |
Index | 235 |