Hebraica Veritas? Christian Hebraists and the Study of Judaism in
Early Modern Europe Edited by Allison P. Coudert and Jeffrey S.
Shoulson "Superb. . . . Examining the Christian study of Hebrew and
Jewish texts, mostly in early modern Europe (with some medieval
materials included), the contributors probe the degree of positive
interactions between Jews and Christian and also uncover
heretofore-hidden Jewish contributions to the Western intellectual
tradition."--"Choice" "An erudite collection of essays whose
scholarship is clearly a match for the figures and writings which
it is concerned."--"Sixteenth Century Journal" "Containing essays
by many eminent scholars, the volume offers an excellent
reassessment of the history of early modern Christian Hebraism, as
well as of the history of Christian-Jewish relations."--"Envoi" In
the early modern period, the religious fervor of the Reformation
and Counter-Reformation, social unrest, and millenarianism all
seemed to foster greater anti-Judaism in Christian Europe, yet the
increased intolerance was also accompanied by more intimate and
complex forms of interaction between Christians and Jews. Printing,
trade, and travel combined to bring those from both sides of the
religious divide into closer contact than ever before, while
growing interest in magic and the Kabbalah encouraged Christians to
study Hebrew in addition to Latin and Greek. In "Hebraica Veritas?
Christian Hebraists and the Study of Judaism in Early Modern
Europe," noted scholars trace how these early modern encounters
played key roles in defining attitudes toward personal, national,
and religious identity in Western culture. As Christians
increasingly patronized Jewish scholars, in person and in print,
Christian Hebraism flourished. The twelve essays assembled here
address the important but often neglected subject of the early
modern encounter between Christians and Jews. They illustrate how
this envolvement shaped each group's self-perception and sense of
otherness and contributed to the emergence of the modern study of
cultural anthropology, comparative religion, and Jewish studies.
But the chapters also reveal how the encounter challenged
traditional religious beliefs, fostering the skepticism,
toleration, and irreligion conventionally associated with the
Enlightenment. Many of the Christian Hebraists described in these
essays were linguists and textual critics, and their work
highlights the ambiguous role played by language and texts in
transmitting natural and divine truth. It was during the early
modern period that numerous concepts underpinning modern Western
secular society came into existence, and as Hebraica Veritas?
shows, the subject of Christian Hebraism has direct relevance to
understanding the intellectual changes and challenges
characterizing the transition from the ancient to the modern world.
Allison P. Coudert is Professor of Religious Studies at Arizona
State University. She is author of "The Impact of the Kabbalah in
the Seventeenth Century: The Life and Thought of Francis Mercury
van Helmont, 1614-1698." Jeffrey S. Shoulson is Associate Professor
of English and Director of the Program in Judaic Studies at the
University of Miami. He is author of "Milton and the Rabbis:
Hebraism, Hellenism, and Christianity." Jewish Culture and Contexts
2004 328 pages 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 23 illus. ISBN 978-0-8122-3761-0 Cloth
$69.95s 45.50 World Rights History, Religion Short copy: "Superb. .
. The contributors probe the degree of positive interactions
between Jews and Christian and also uncover heretofore-hidden
Jewish contributions to the Western intellectual
tradition."--"Choice"
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