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Jewish glass and Christian stone : a materialist mapping of the "parting of the ways"
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ISBN: 9781138202122 1138202126 9781315474731 9781315474700 Year: 2017 Publisher: Abingdon Routledge

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"In recent years scholars have re-evaluated the "parting of the ways" between Judaism and Christianity, reaching new understandings of the ways shared origins gave way to two distinct and sometimes inimical religious traditions. But this has been a profoundly textual task, relying on the writings of rabbis, bishops, and other text-producing elites to map the terrain of the "parting." This book takes up the question of the divergence of Judaism and Christianity in terms of material--the stuff made, used, and left behind by the persons that lived in and between these religions as they were developing. Considering the glass, clay, stone, paint, vellum, and papyrus of ancient Jews and Christians, this book maps the "parting" in new ways, and argues for a greater role for material and materialism in our reconstructions of the past."--


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Jewish Conscience of the Church : Jules Isaac and the Second Vatican Council
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ISBN: 3319469258 331946924X 9783319469249 9783319469256 Year: 2017 Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,

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This book presents the backstory of how the Catholic Church came to clarify and embrace the role of Israel in salvation history, at the behest of an unlikely personality: Jules Isaac. This embrace put to an end the tradition, more than fifteen centuries old, of anti-Jewish rhetoric that had served as taproot to racial varieties of anti-Semitism. Prior to Isaac’s thought and activism, this contemptuous tradition had never been denounced in so compelling a manner that the Church was forced to address it. It is a story of loss and triumph, and ultimately, unlikely partnership. Isaac devoted his years after World War II to a crusade for scriptural truth and rectification of Christian teaching regarding Jews and Judaism. Isaac’s crusade culminated in an unpublicized audience with Pope John XXIII—a meeting that moved the pope to make a last-minute addition to the Second Vatican Council agenda and set in motion the events leading to a revolution in Catholic teaching about Jews.


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Mazzel tov : mijn leven als werkstudente bij een orthodox-joodse familie
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ISBN: 9789045033853 9045033852 Year: 2017 Publisher: Amsterdam Atlas Contact

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Een werkstudente geeft jarenlang bijles aan kinderen uit een orthodox-joods gezin in Antwerpen en bezoekt hen jaren later in Israë̈l en de Verenigde Staten.


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Arguments against the Christian religion in Amsterdam
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ISBN: 9789462980105 9789048529261 9462980101 9048529263 Year: 2017 Publisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press,

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This is the first book to offer a translation into English-as well as a critical study-of a Spanish treatise written around 1650 by Rabbi Saul Levi Morteira, whose most renowned congregant was Baruch Spinoza. Aimed at encouraging the practice of halachic Judaism among the Amsterdam-based descendants of conversos, Spanish and Portuguese Sephardic Jews who had been forced to convert to Christianity, the book stages a dialogue between two conversos that ultimately leads to a vision of a Jewish homeland-an outcome that Morteira thought was only possible through his program for rejudaisation.


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Levi's vindication : the 1007 anonymous "as it really is"
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ISBN: 9780822945185 0822945185 Year: 2017 Publisher: [Cincinnati]: Hebrew union college press,

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"Levi's Vindication is a searching re-examination of the nature and significance of the '1007 Anonymous,' a Hebrew fiction in historical guise that has often been read as a record of early eleventh-century events. Stow's meticulous research demonstrates beyond question that the text is in fact a thirteenth-century production, and that it provides a rare and important glimpse into its Jewish author's understanding of the relationship between royal and papal power during that crucial century for Jewish-Christian relations." Robert Stacey, University of Washingon. -- Provided by publisher.

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