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Living Letters of the Law: Ideas of the Jew in Medieval Christianity
Jeremy Cohen
Living Letters of the Law: Ideas of the Jew in Medieval Christianity
Jeremy Cohen
Investigates the images of Jews and Judaism in the works of medieval Christian theologians from Augustine to Thomas Aquinas. This book reveals how, and why, medieval Christianity fashioned a Jew on the basis of its reading of Bible, and how this hermeneutically crafted Jew assumed distinctive character and power in Christian thought and culture.
461 pages, 1 table.
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | November 11, 1999 |
ISBN13 | 9780520218703 |
Publishers | University of California Press |
Pages | 461 |
Dimensions | 155 × 229 × 38 mm · 884 g |
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