Table of Contents

Preface
—David B. Ruderman
1 Introduction
—Allison P. Coudert and Jeffrey S. Shoulson
I. NEGOTIATING DIALOGUE
2. Polemic and Exegesis: The Varieties of Twelfth-Century Hebraism
Michael A. Signer
3. Man as the "Possible" Entity in Some Jewish and Renaissance Sources
—Moshe Idel
4. Jews, Humanists and the Reappraisal of Pagan Wisdom Associated with the Ideal of the Dignitas Hominis
—Fabrizio Lelli
5. The Mechanics of Christian-Jewish Intellectual Collaboration in Seventeenth-Century Provence: N.-C. Fabri de Peiresc and Salomon Azubi
—Peter N. Miller
6. John Selden's De Jure Naturali . . . Juxta Disciplinam Ebraeorum and Religious Toleration
—Jason P. Rosenblatt
7. Censorship, Editing, and the Reshaping of Jewish Identity: The Catholic Church and Hebrew Literature in the Sixteenth Century
—Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin
II. IMAGINING DIFFERENCES
8. Skepticism and Conversion: Jews, Christians, and Doubters in Sefer ha-Nizzahon
—Ora Limor and Israel Jacob Yuval
9. Reassessing the "Basel-Wittenburg Conflict": Dimensions of the Reformation-Era Discussion of Hebrew Scholarship
—Stephen G. Burnett
10. Polemical Ethnographies: Descriptions of Yom Kippur in the Writings of Christian Hebraists And Jewish Converts to Christianity in Early Modern Europe
—Yaacov Deutsch
11. The "Jewish Quaker": Christian Perceptions of Sabbatai Zevi as an Enthusiast
—Michael Heyd
12. Colliding Visions: Jewish Messianism and German Scholarship in the Eighteenth Century
—Nils Roemer
13. Five Seventeenth-Century Christian Hebraists
—Allison P. Coudert
List of Contributors
Index
Acknowledgments

Promotional Information

"Superb. . . The contributors probe the degree of positive interactions between Jews and Christian and also uncover heretofore-hidden Jewish contributions to the Western intellectual tradition."—Choice

About the Author

Allison P. Coudert is Professor of Religious Studies at Arizona State University. She is author of The Impact of the Kabbalah in the Seventeenth Century: The Life and Thought of Francis Mercury van Helmont, 1614-1698. Jeffrey S. Shoulson is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Program in Judaic Studies at the University of Miami. He is author of Milton and the Rabbis: Hebraism, Hellenism, and Christianity.

Reviews

"Superb... Examining the Christian study of Hebrew and Jewish texts, mostly in early modern Europe (with some medieval materials included), the contributors probe the degree of positive interactions between Jews and Christian and also uncover heretofore-hidden Jewish contributions to the Western intellectual tradition."--Choice "An erudite collection of essays whose scholarship is clearly a match for the figures and writings which it is concerned."--Sixteenth Century Journal