Transforming relations : essays on Jews and Christians throughout history in honor of Michael A. Signer /
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| Imprint: | Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, c2010. |
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| Description: | xxv, 476 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8053408 |
Table of Contents:
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- Introduction: The Transformative Work of Michael A. Signer
- I. Ancient and Medieval Perspectives: Exegesis, Polemic, and Cultural Exchange
- 1. The Making of a Medievalist
- 2. The End of the Law: A Significant Difference between Judaism and Christianity
- 3. Christianity in Talmud and Midrash: Parallelomania or Parallelophobia?
- 4. The Psalms at the Abbey of Saint-Victor: From the Novices' schola to the Heights of contemplatio
- 5. Historia and Sensus litteralis: An Investigation into the Approach to Literal Interpretation at the Twelfth-Century School of St. Victor
- 6. The Harmony of Similar and Dissimilar Things: Narrative and Reason in Richard of St. Victor's De Emmanuele
- 7. "Following with Unequal Step": Andrew of St. Victor, the Glossa ordinaria, and Compilatory Exegesis in the Northern French Schools of the Twelfth Century
- 8. "And Rebekah Loved Jacob,"But Why? Responses from Two Twelfth-Century Exegetes
- 9. Two Introductions by Rabbi Samuel ben Meir (Rashbam): To the Song of Songs and Lamentations
- 10. Wandering to the End: The Medieval Christian Context of the Wandering Jew
- 11. Hugh of St. Cher and Medieval Collaboration
- 12. Wessel Gansfort's (1419-1489) Use of Hebrew
- 13. "The Guardian of Israel neither Dozes nor Sleeps": Exegesis, Polemics, and Politics in the Late Medieval Jewish-Christian Encounter
- II. Modern Perspectives: Theology, Praxis, and Perceptions of the Other
- 14. "To Get to Know, to Understand, and to Respect Each Other": Guidelines Old and New
- 15. Biblical and Historical Perspectives on "the People of God"
- 16. Rabbi Hayim David Halevi on Christianity and Christians: An Analysis of Selected Legal Writings of an Israeli Authority
- 17. Michael Signer's Theological Philosophy of the Plain Sense
- 18. Can We Speak of a Theological Bond between Christians and Jews? A Dialogue with Michael Signer
- 19. Philosemitism and "Judaizing" in the Contemporary Church
- 20. Contempt for the Jews and Disregard for the Old Testament: The Re-establishment of the Tridentine Rite in German Perspective
- Publications of Michael A. Signer
- Index