New Perspectives on Jewish-Christian Relations

Elisheva Carlebach is Salo Baron Professor of Jewish History, Culture and Society at Columbia University. Jacob J. Schacter is University Professor of Jewish History and Jewish Thought at Yeshiva University.

• Introduction Elisheva Carlebach and Jacob J. SchacterChristian Triumphalism and Anti-Jewish ViolenceOn the Authenticity of the Testimonium Flavianum Attributed to Josephus Louis H. FeldmanThe Menorah and the Cross: Historiographical Reflections on a Recent Discovery from Laodicea on the Lycus Steven FineJudaizing the Passion: The Case of the Crown of Thorns in the Middle Ages William Chester Jordan“Unless the Lord Watches Over the City . . .”: Joan of Aragon and His Jews, June–October 1391 Benjamin R. GampelChristian Mission and Jewish ConversionGenesis 49:10 in Thirteenth-Century Christian Missionizing Robert ChazanThe Different Hebrew Versions of the “Talmud Trial” of 1240 in Paris Judah GalinskyAn Infant’s Missionary Sermon Addressed to the Jews of Rome in 1553 Robert BonfilRabbi Jonathan Eibeschuetz and the Alleged Jewish-Christian Sect in Eighteenth-Century Amsterdam Sid Z. LeimanThe Imprint of Christian Society on Internal Jewish Cultural PatternsSeeking Signs? Jews, Christians, and Proof by Fire in Medieval Germany and Northern France Elisheva BaumgartenA Medieval Judeo-Spanish Poem on the Complementarity of Faith and Works and Its Intellectual Roots Bernard Septimus“Because Our Wives Trade and Do Business with Our Goods”: Gender, Work, and Jewish-Christian Relations Debra KaplanJewish Evaluations of ChristianityMeiri and the Non-Jew: A Comparative Investigation Yaakov ElmanChanging Attitudes toward Apostates in Tosafist Literature, Late Twelfth–Early Thirteenth Centuries Ephraim KanarfogelThe Portuguese Jews of Amsterdam and the Status of Christians Miriam BodianRabbi Jacob Emden, Sabbatianism, and Frankism: Attitudes toward Christianity in the Eighteenth Century Jacob J. SchacterJewish Polemical Strategies in Light of Christianity and IslamRashi’s Position on Prophecy among the Nations and the Jewish-Christian Polemic Avraham GrossmanIsaiah’s Suffering Servant and the Jews: From the Nineteenth Century to the Ninth Elliott HorowitzPeshat or Polemics: The Case of Genesis 36 Martin I. LockshinMaimonides’ Attitude toward Christian Biblical Hermeneutics in Light of Earlier Jewish Sources Mordechai Z. CohenKaraism and Christianity: An Evolving Relationship Daniel J. LaskerContemporary Jewish-Christian RelationsMorality, Liberalism, and Interfaith Dialogue David ShatzThe Jewish People and Their Sacred Scriptures in the Christian Bible, by the Pontifical Biblical Commission (Rome, 2001) Michael Wyschogrod

"...a book filled with valuable new contributions to the field of Jewish-Christian relations. It is recommended for all research collections in Judaica, as well as those in Jewish-Christian relations." - James P. Rosenbloom, Judaica Librarian, Brandeis University, in: AJL Reviews (2012)"All in all, [...] the volume offers an impressive number of very insightful articles which are disposed so as to offer an extremely rich and differentiated picture of the various processes of delimitation, superimposition, rapprochement and, above all, identity-building of two religions in their direct and indirect interactions." - Alexander Fidora, ICREA/Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, in: Journal of Transcultural Medieval Studies, 1:2 (2014)"In addition to fresh perspectives and a good survey of the variety of recent approaches to the historical study of Jewish-Christian relations, this volume is also of interest to students of interreligious relations more broadly defined and of the evolvement of religious identity and to those interested in the reception of the Bible." - C. Stenschke, in: Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses, 94:1 (2018)"This is but one example of a book filled with valuable new contributions to the field of Jewish-Christian relations. It is recommended for all research collections in Judaica, as well as those in Jewish-Christian relations." - James P. Rosenbloom, Judaica Librarian, Brandeis University, in: Association of Jewish Libraries Reviews, 2:3 (2012)