Monk’s Haggadah

David Stern is the Moritz and Josephine Berg Professor of Classical Hebrew Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. Christoph Markschies is the Chair of Ancient Christianity at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Sarit Shalev-Eyni is Professor of History of Art at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

• ContentsList of Illustrations1. The Monk’s Haggadah (Munich Codex Hebrew 200): An IntroductionDavid Stern2. The Making of the Codex: Scribal Work, Illumination, and PatronageSarit Shalev-Eyni3. The History of the Codex and the Christian Theological Background of Erhard’s PrologueChristoph Markschies4. The Hebraist Background to Erhard’s PrologueDavid Stern5. Codicology and Description of the ManuscriptSarit Shalev-Eyni6. The Prologue to the Haggadah by Erhard von Pappenheim (Latin Text)Edited by Christoph Markschies with Erik Koenke and Anna Rack-Teuteberg7. The Prologue to the Haggadah by Erhard von Pappenheim (English Translation)Translated by Erik Koenke with David Stern8. The Passover Haggadah (in Codex Hebrew 200)Translated by David SternNotes

“This book wonderfully proves the value of collaborative research. The introduction describes how this collaboration came about and is by itself a little masterpiece. Like a detective story, it chronicles how the researchers gradually came to recognize that the Haggadah and its Latin—and very Christian—preface constitute one of the most remarkable testimonies in both image and word of the complex character of Jewish-Christian relations in the fifteenth century. Yet the manuscript, even after the collaborators’ fascinating findings, remains enigmatic and indeed mysterious. This is simply an extraordinary book about an extraordinary artifact.”—William Jordan, Princeton University