ISBN:
9789047417323
,
9789004149052
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource
Year of publication:
2006
Series Statement:
Studies in the History of Christian Traditions 126
Series Statement:
Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als "Take Hold of the Robe of a Jew": Herbert of Bosham's Christian Hebraism
Keywords:
Christianity and other religions Judaism
;
Judaism Relations
;
Christianity
Abstract:
This engaging, meticulously documented study explores the complex, sometimes conflicting motives of Christian hebraists. It locates Herbert of Bosham's twelfth-century Psalms commentary at the nexus of the intellectual and social movements of his day, and elucidates the complex situations that contributed to Christians' divergent perspectives on the Jews. Was the twelfth century a rare period of collaboration between Christian and Jewish exegetes, or did anti-Semitism originate in the texts of the era's Christian polemicists? Modern scholars have been divided on these questions. This study of Herbert's commentary, which relied on the Hebrew commentary of R. Solomon ben Isaac of Troyes, articulates a more nuanced, integrated approach to medieval Jewish-Christian relations, and provides transcriptions from the unpublished manuscript
Description / Table of Contents:
List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Life of a Twelfth-Century Intellectual -- 2. Herbert of Bosham's Psalterium cum commento -- 3. Twelfth-Century Christian Hebraism in Context -- 4. Colonizing the Territory of Scripture -- 5. The Linguistic and Cultural Horizons of Herbert's Hebraism -- 6. Herbert's Hermeneutic of the Literal Sense -- 7. Herbert as Expositor: The Faithful Synagogue -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
DOI:
10.1163/9789047417323
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