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Dialogue against the Jews / Petrus Alfonsi ; translated by Irven M. Resnick.

By: Contributor(s): Language: English Original language: Latin Series: Fathers of the church. Mediaeval continuation ; ; v. 8.Publication details: Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, ©2006.Description: 1 online resource (xxv, 290 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780813216409
  • 0813216400
Other title:
  • Dialog against the Jews
Uniform titles:
  • Dialogus contra Iudaeos. English
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Dialogue against the Jews.DDC classification:
  • 239 22
LOC classification:
  • BM585 .P483513 2006eb
Online resources:
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""; ""Indices""; ""General Index""; ""Index of Biblical Citations""; ""Index of Talmudic Citations""; ""Index of Quranic Citations""; ""Diagram of Climata (British Library)""
""Diagram of Climata (Bodleian Library, Oxford)""""Diagram of Sun�s Orbit (Bodleian Library, Oxford)""; ""Tetragrammaton (St. John�s College, Cambridge)""
Review: "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.

"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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""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""; ""Indices""; ""General Index""; ""Index of Biblical Citations""; ""Index of Talmudic Citations""; ""Index of Quranic Citations""; ""Diagram of Climata (British Library)""

""Diagram of Climata (Bodleian Library, Oxford)""""Diagram of Sun�s Orbit (Bodleian Library, Oxford)""; ""Tetragrammaton (St. John�s College, Cambridge)""

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