| Description |
1 online resource (xxv, 290 pages) : illustrations |
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Fathers of the church. Mediaeval continuation ; v. 8 |
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Fathers of the church. Mediaeval continuation ; v. 8
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| Contents |
CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Select Bibliography -- Introduction -- Dialogue Against the Jews -- Proemium and Prologue -- First Titulus -- Second Titulus -- Third Titulus -- Fourth Titulus -- Fifth Titulus -- Sixth Titulus -- Seventh Titulus -- Eighth Titulus -- Ninth Titulus -- Tenth Titulus -- Eleventh Titulus -- Twelfth Titulus -- indexes -- General Index -- Index of Biblical Citations -- Index of Talmudic Citations -- Index of Quranic Citations -- Diagram of Climata (British Library) |
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Diagram of Climata (Bodleian Library, Oxford)Diagram of Sun�s Orbit (Bodleian Library, Oxford) -- Tetragrammaton (St. John�s College, Cambridge) |
| Summary |
"Petrus Alfonsi's Dialogue Against the Jews (ca. 1109) breaks new ground in the history of Christian anti-Jewish polemics. As a recent convert from Judaism, Alfonsi introduced an intimate knowledge of Jewish literature and contemporary practice absent from earlier Christian sources. This knowledge enabled him to attack for the first time the Talmud (or, more broadly, post-biblical Jewish literature) as a source of Jewish error, with arguments drawn from philosophy and theology, astronomy, medicine, and physics. Equally important, Alfonsi's Dialogue contains an extensive anti-Muslim polemic to explain not only why he abandoned Judaism but also why he rejected Islam and chose the Christian faith." "Never before translated into English, this work presents to the reader perhaps the most important source for an intensifying medieval Christian-Jewish debate."--Jacket |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages xi-xxv) and indexes |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Judaism -- Controversial literature -- Early works to 1800
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Apologetics -- Early works to 1800.
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RELIGION -- Christian Theology -- Apologetics.
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RELIGION -- Judaism -- General.
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Apologetics
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Judaism
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Apologetik
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Antijudaismus
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Judentum
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Jodendom.
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| Genre/Form |
Controversial literature
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Early works
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Resnick, Irven M.
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| LC no. |
2006004117 |
| ISBN |
9780813216409 |
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0813216400 |
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