Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Christian Triumphalism and Anti-Jewish Violence

On the Authenticity of the Testimonium Flavianum Attributed to Josephus

The Menorah and the Cross: Historiographical Reflections on a Recent Discovery from Laodicea on the Lycus

Judaizing the Passion: The Case of the Crown of Thorns in the Middle Ages

“Unless the Lord Watches Over the City . . .”: Joan of Aragon and His Jews, June–October 1391

Christian Mission and Jewish Conversion

Genesis 49:10 in Thirteenth-Century Christian Missionizing

The Different Hebrew Versions of the “Talmud Trial” of 1240 in Paris

An Infant’s Missionary Sermon Addressed to the Jews of Rome in 1553

Rabbi Jonathan Eibeschuetz and the Alleged Jewish-Christian Sect in Eighteenth-Century Amsterdam

The Imprint of Christian Society on Internal Jewish Cultural Patterns

Seeking Signs? Jews, Christians, and Proof by Fire in Medieval Germany and Northern France

A Medieval Judeo-Spanish Poem on the Complementarity of Faith and Works and Its Intellectual Roots

“Because Our Wives Trade and Do Business with Our Goods”: Gender, Work, and Jewish-Christian Relations

Jewish Evaluations of Christianity

Meiri and the Non-Jew: A Comparative Investigation

Changing Attitudes toward Apostates in Tosafist Literature, Late Twelfth–Early Thirteenth Centuries

The Portuguese Jews of Amsterdam and the Status of Christians

Rabbi Jacob Emden, Sabbatianism, and Frankism: Attitudes toward Christianity in the Eighteenth Century

Jewish Polemical Strategies in Light of Christianity and Islam

Rashi’s Position on Prophecy among the Nations and the Jewish-Christian Polemic

Isaiah’s Suffering Servant and the Jews: From the Nineteenth Century to the Ninth

Peshat or Polemics: The Case of Genesis 36

Maimonides’ Attitude toward Christian Biblical Hermeneutics in Light of Earlier Jewish Sources

Karaism and Christianity: An Evolving Relationship

Contemporary Jewish-Christian Relations

Morality, Liberalism, and Interfaith Dialogue

The Jewish People and Their Sacred Scriptures in the Christian Bible, by the Pontifical Biblical Commission (Rome, 2001)

Index