Living Letters of the Law: Ideas of the Jew in Medieval Christianity

by Jeremy Cohen

Book Overview

In Living Letters of the Law, 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.

Augustine's doctrine of Jewish witness, which constructed...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520218701
• ISBN13: 9780520218703
• Release Date: November 1999
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 461 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"