Note on Names, Titles, Citations, and Transliteration -- Introduction -- From Peripety to Prose -- Alterity and Auctoritas -- In the Shadow of the Khazars -- A War of Words -- The Jargon of Authenticity -- The Supersessionist Imperative -- Conclusion -- Abbreviations
Summary
The author draws on medieval Christian, Jewish, and Muslim polemics to investigate the role of narrative in the representation of conversion. By investigating conversion not as individual experience but as expression of communal visions of history, he shows how the narratives dramatize the conflict of ideas in disputational writing
