| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Origins and early history: late antiquity -- Under early Islam: the period of the Geonim and the geniza -- The birkat haminim in Europe of the High Middle Ages -- Living with censorship?: early modern realities -- The modern period: changes by choice to the text -- Appendix 1. Geniza texts of the birkat haminim -- Appendix 2. Evidence for the birkat haminim in the pre-Sephardized rites of the Muslim world -- Appendix 3. Uncensored medieval European texts of the birkat haminim -- Appendix 4. Censored texts of the birkat haminim, 1550 to the present -- Appendix 5. Texts of the liberal movements |
| Summary |
Ruth Langer offers an in-depth study of the birkat haminim, a Jewish prayer for the removal of those categories of human being who prevent the messianic redemption and the society envisioned for it. In its earliest form, the prayer cursed Christians apostates to Christianity, sectarians, and enemies of Israel |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on Jan. 20, 2012) |
| SUBJECT |
Birkat ha-minim. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2008021167
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Amidah (Jewish prayer) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n90708834
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Amidah (Jewish prayer) fast |
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Birkat ha-minim fast |
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Judaism -- Relations -- Christianity.
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Christianity and other religions -- Judaism.
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Christianity
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Interfaith relations
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Judaism
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780199919161 |
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019991916X |
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1283427230 |
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9781283427234 |
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