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By Jeremy Cohen

In Living Letters of the Law, Jeremy Cohen investigates the pictures of Jews and Judaism within the works of medieval Christian theologians from Augustine to Thomas Aquinas. He finds how—and why—medieval Christianity formed a Jew at the foundation of its examining of the Bible, and the way this hermeneutically crafted Jew assumed precise personality and tool in Christian concept and culture.

Augustine's doctrine of Jewish witness, which developed the Jews with the intention to mandate their survival in a safely ordered Christian global, is the start line for this illuminating examine. Cohen demonstrates how variations of this doctrine mirrored swap within the self-consciousness of early medieval civilization. After exploring the impact of twelfth-century Europe's come upon with Islam at the price of Augustine's Jewish witnesses, he concludes with a brand new evaluate of the reception of Augustine's rules between thirteenth-century popes and friars.

Consistently linking the medieval proposal of the Jew with broader problems with textual feedback, anthropology, and the philosophy of background, this booklet demonstrates the complicated importance of Christianity's "hermeneutical Jew" not just within the historical past of antisemitism but in addition within the wide scope of Western highbrow history.

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