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Fashioning Jewish Identity in Medieval Western Christendom (Hardcover, New)
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Fashioning Jewish Identity in Medieval Western Christendom (Hardcover, New)
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During the course of the twelfth century, increasing numbers of
Jews migrated into dynamically developing western Christendom from
Islamic lands. The vitality that attracted them also presented a
challenge: Christianity - from early in its history - had
proclaimed itself heir to a failed Jewish community and thus the
vitality of western Christendom was both appealing and threatening
to the Jewish immigrants. Indeed, western Christendom was entering
a phase of intense missionising activity, some of which was
directed at the long-term Jewish residents of Europe and the Jewish
newcomers. This 2003 study examines the techniques of persuasion
adopted by the Jewish polemicists in order to reassure their Jewish
readers of the truth of Judaism and the error of Christianity. At
the very deepest level, these Jewish authors sketched out for their
fellow Jews a comparative portrait of Christian and Jewish
societies - the former powerful but irrational and morally debased,
the latter the weak but reasonable and morally elevated - urging
that the obvious and sensible choice was Judaism.
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