Jewish-Christian Encounters over the Centuries
Symbiosis, Prejudice, Holocaust, Dialogue
Will be published approx. on 1. August 1994
Book
Hardback
X, 436 pages
978-0-8204-2082-0 (ISBN)
Description
The 19 essays of this book are exceptional in that, together, they cover the entire span of relations between Jews and Christians from the time of Jesus to the present. This lengthy period and complex subject required many experts and specialists, many of whom are famous in their fields. They have, however, created works of synthesis written in non-technical language and designed largely for the interested general reader and non-specialist as well as for students seeking to come to an understanding of one of the great issues of our time.
Some of the themes highlighted in this book are: Judaism and Christianity in light of the Dead Sea Scrolls; Christian theory and practice towards the Jews from the Church Fathers through the Reformation; Judaism as interpreted in German biblical scholarship; modern antisemitism and philosemitism; policies and postures of the Allies and of the Vatican during World War II; and the several Christian attempts at reformulation since the Holocaust, culminating with Pope John Paul II.
Some of the themes highlighted in this book are: Judaism and Christianity in light of the Dead Sea Scrolls; Christian theory and practice towards the Jews from the Church Fathers through the Reformation; Judaism as interpreted in German biblical scholarship; modern antisemitism and philosemitism; policies and postures of the Allies and of the Vatican during World War II; and the several Christian attempts at reformulation since the Holocaust, culminating with Pope John Paul II.
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The Editors: Marvin Perry received his Ph.D. from the City University of New York and is an associate professor of History at Baruch College, CUNY. His books include An Intellectual History of Modern Europe; Arnold Toynbee and the Crisis of the West; Toynbee: Reappraisals (co-edited with C. T. McIntire); Western Civilization: A Brief History; Western Civilization: Ideas, Politics and Society (senior author and general editor); and Sources of the Western Tradition (senior editor).
Frederick M. Schweitzer earned his doctorate in modern British and European History at Columbia University and is Professor of History at Manhattan College in the Riverdale section of the Bronx. He is co-compiler of Dictionary of the Renaissance, editor of Festschrift, 1983, co-editor of The West in Global Context: A Documentary History and the author of A History of the Jews since the First Century A.D.. He is active as speaker, essayist, and reviewer in such areas as Arnold Toynbee's misinterpretation of Jewish History, messianism in the Dead Sea Scrolls, the demonization of the Jews, German History, and the Holocaust.
Frederick M. Schweitzer earned his doctorate in modern British and European History at Columbia University and is Professor of History at Manhattan College in the Riverdale section of the Bronx. He is co-compiler of Dictionary of the Renaissance, editor of Festschrift, 1983, co-editor of The West in Global Context: A Documentary History and the author of A History of the Jews since the First Century A.D.. He is active as speaker, essayist, and reviewer in such areas as Arnold Toynbee's misinterpretation of Jewish History, messianism in the Dead Sea Scrolls, the demonization of the Jews, German History, and the Holocaust.