CONTENTS

Plates

Editorial Statement

Introduction --- Marcel Poorthuis, Joshua Schwartz and Joseph Turner

PART ONE JEWS AND CHRISTIANS IN THE ROMAN-BYZANTINE PERIOD

Jewish–Christian Relations and Rabbinic Literature—Shifting Scholarly and Relational Paradigms: The Case of Two Powers --- Alon Goshen-Gottstein

Learning and Practising: Uses of an Early Jewish Discourse in Matthew (7:24–27) and Rabbinic Literature --- Eric Ottenheijm

Rabbinic and Christian Models of Interaction on the Song of Songs --- Tamar Kadari

Monism and Dualism in Jewish-Mystical and Christian-Gnostic Ascent Texts --- Gerard P. Luttikhuizen

A Remarkable Case of Religious Interaction: Water Baptisms in Judaism and Christianity --- Gerard Rouwhorst

On Trees, Waves, and Cytokinesis: Shifting Paradigms in Early (and Modern) Jewish–Christian Relations --- Daniel Stökl Ben Ezra

The Deserts of Palestine. Wilderness in the Thought of the Rabbis and the Desert Fathers: Geographic Reality and the Crisscrossing of Motifs --- Joshua Schwartz

PART TWO JEWS AND CHRISTIANS IN THE MIDDLE AGES

The Modality of Interaction between Jewish and Christian Thought in the Middle Ages: The Problem of Free Will and Divine Wisdom in Dante Alighieri and Menahem Recanati as a Case Study --- Sandra Debenedetti Stow

Die Pariser Verfahren gegen den Talmud von 1240 und 1248 im Kontext von Papsttum und französischem Königtum --- Daniela Mueller

The Dynamic of Religious Polemics: The Case of Raymond Martin (Ca. 1220–Ca.1285) --- Syds Wiersma

The Jewish Pardes Metaphor as Reflected in the Magical Garden of a Christian Knight --- Lily Glasner

PART THREE THE PROBLEMS OF MODERNITY

Calvinist Resistance and Dutch Jewry. The 'Pillarized' Background --- Gert van Klinken

Religious Insulation as a Mode of Interdependence. Relating Catholicism and Modernity --- Staf Hellemans

Good Enough for the Goyim? Samuel Hirsch and Samuel Holdheim on Christianity --- Judith Frishman

Sacred Death for Orthodox Jewish Thought during the Holocaust: With a Preliminary Inquiry into Christian Parallels --- Gershon Greenberg

PART FOUR RITUAL AND THEOLOGY IN THE MODERN, POST-MODERN AND NEW AGES

From Monologues to Possible Dialogue. Judaism's Attitude .owards Christianity According to the Philosophy of R. Yéhouda Léon Askénazi (Manitou) --- Yossef Charvit

Faith and the Courage to Be: Heschel and Tillich --- Alexander Even-Chen

'A Symbolic Bridge Between Faiths': Holy Ground for Liquid Ritual --- Paul Post

Kabbalah on the Internet: Transcending Denominational Boundaries in Conflicting Ideologies --- Marcel Poorthuis and Frank Bosman

'An Indissoluble Bond between the Church and the People of Israel': Historical Fact or Theological Conviction? --- Simon Schoon

The Anomaly of Jewish Ethnicity as a Consideration in Contemporary Interreligious Dialogue --- Joseph Turner

PART FIVE ART

Jewish and Christian Imaging of the 'House of God': A Fourth Century Reflection of Religious and Historical Polemics --- Shulamit Laderman and Yair Furstenberg

The King of the King of Kings: Images of Rulership in Late Medieval and Early Modern Christian Art and Synagogue Design --- Ilia Rodov

The Sun Rays on Top of the Torah Ark: A Dialogue with the Aureole, the Christian Symbol of the Divinity on Top of the Altarpiece --- Bracha Yaniv

The Iconography of the Holy Family in Chagall's 1909–1910 Works --- Mirjam Rajner

PART SIX LITERATURE

Notes on Christians and Christianity in Agnon's Writings --- Hillel Weiss

Gide and Sartre on Jews and Judaism --- Yaffa Wolfman

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