{"product_id":"living-letters-of-the-law-jeremy-cohen-9780520218703","title":"Living Letters of the Law: Ideas of the Jew in Medieval Christianity","description":"In \u003ci\u003eLiving Letters of the Law\u003c\/i\u003e, Jeremy Cohen investigates the images of Jews and Judaism in the works of medieval Christian theologians from Augustine to Thomas Aquinas. He reveals how--and why--medieval Christianity fashioned a Jew on the basis of its reading of the Bible, and how this hermeneutically crafted Jew assumed distinctive character and power in Christian thought and culture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAugustine's doctrine of Jewish witness, which constructed the Jews so as to mandate their survival in a properly ordered Christian world, is the starting point for this illuminating study. Cohen demonstrates how adaptations of this doctrine reflected change in the self-consciousness of early medieval civilization. After exploring the effect of twelfth-century Europe's encounter with Islam on the value of Augustine's Jewish witnesses, he concludes with a new assessment of the reception of Augustine's ideas among thirteenth-century popes and friars.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eConsistently linking the medieval idea of the Jew with broader issues of textual criticism, anthropology, and the philosophy of history, this book demonstrates the complex significance of Christianity's \"hermeneutical Jew\" not only in the history of antisemitism but also in the broad scope of Western intellectual history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jeremy Cohen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0520218701\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780520218703\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of California Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/11\/1999\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 461\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.36lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.97h x 6.00w x 1.15d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e National Jewish Book Award - Winner","brand":"Jeremy Cohen","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46372297703679,"sku":"9780520218703","price":38.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d601af99-1be9-4e45-a642-e2951cadcbe7.jpg?v=1732725560","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/living-letters-of-the-law-jeremy-cohen-9780520218703","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}