The Insight of Unbelievers: Nicholas of Lyra and Christian Reading of Jewish Text in the Later Middle Ages »

Deeana Copeland Klepper is Associate Professor of Religion and History, and Chair of the Department of Religion at Boston University.

By carefully examining the place of Hebrew and rabbinic traditions in the Christian study of the Bible, The Insight of Unbelievers elaborates in new ways on the relationship between Christian and Jewish scholarship and polemic in late medieval Europe.

Introduction     1
Medieval Christian Use of Hebrew and Postbiblical Jewish Texts     13
Nicholas of Lyra, O.F.M.: Mediating Hebrew Traditions for a Christian Audience     32
The Challenge of Unbelief: Knowing Christian Truth Through Jewish Scripture     61
Wrestling with Rashi: Nicholas of Lyra's Quodlibetal Questions and Anti-Jewish Polemic     82
Christian Ownership of Jewish Text: Nicholas of Lyra as an Alternative Jewish Authority     109
Manuscripts Consulted Containing Nicholas of Lyra's Quaestio de adventu Christi     135
Notes     143
Bibliography     197
Index     217
Acknowledgments     223