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Jewish Philosophical Polemics Against Christianity in the Middle Ages: With a New Introduction

Jewish Philosophical Polemics Against Christianity in the Middle Ages: With a New Introduction

Lasker, Daniel J.

Paperback

Series: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization

Religion General JudaismGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1904113516
ISBN13: 9781904113515
Publisher: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
Published: Apr 26 2007
Pages: 318
Weight: 0.99
Height: 0.67 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Thorough and meticulously researched, this study is based on a comprehensive reading of philosophical arguments drawn from all the major Jewish sources, published and unpublished, from the Geonic period in the ninth century until the dawn of the Haskalah in the late eighteenth century.

The core of the book is a detailed discussion of the four doctrines of Christianity whose rationality Jews thought they could definitively refute: trinity, incarnation, transubstantiation, and virgin birth. In each case, Daniel Lasker presents a succinct history of the Christian doctrine and then proceeds to a careful examination of the Jewish efforts to demonstrate its impossibility. The main text is clearly written in a non-technical manner, with the Christian doctrines and the Jewish responses both carefully explained; the notes include long quotations, in Hebrew and Arabic as well as in English, from sources that are not readily available in English.

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