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Augustine And the Jews: A Christian Defense of Jews and Judaism

Door Paula Fredriksen

Categorie	Israël & Judaica
Boeknummer	#340084-XF22
Titel	Augustine And the Jews: A Christian Defense of Jews and Judaism
Auteur	Fredriksen, Paula
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	New York etc. : Doubleday
Jaar van uitgave	2008
ISBN10	0385502702
ISBN13	9780385502702
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original boards, gilt lettered spine, dust jacket, map on endpapers, 8vo.
Samenvatting	This provocative book traces the social and intellectual forces that led to the development of Christian anti-Judaism and shows how and why Augustine challenged this toxic tradition. In Augustine and the Jews, Paula Fredriksen draws us into the life, times, and thought of Augustine of Hippo (396?430). Focusing on the period of astounding creativity that led to his new understanding of Paul and to his great classic The Confessions, Fredriksen shows how Augustine? s struggle to read the Bible led him to a new theological vision, one that countered the anti-Judaism not only of his Manichaean opponents but also of his own church. The Christian empire, Augustine held, was right to ban paganism and to coerce heretics. But the source of ancient Jewish scripture and current Jewish practice,... (Lees verder) he argued, was the very same as that of the New Testament and of the church? namely, God himself. Accordingly, he urged, the Jews were to be left alone. Conceived as a vividly original way to defend Christian ideas about Jesus and about the Old Testament, Augustine? s theological innovation survived the demise of the western Roman Empire, and it ultimately served to protect Jewish lives against the brutality of the medieval crusades. Augustine and the Jewssheds new light on the origins of anti-Semitism and, through Augustine, opens a path toward better understanding between two of the world? s great religions.
Pagina's	488
Conditie	Redelijk — Markings with ballpoint pen in margin (mostly in the beginning); red permanent marker line on bottom cut.
Prijs	€ 10,00

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