About the Author

Irven M. Resnick is professor of philosophy and religion, and Chair of Excellence in Judaic Studies at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. He is a corresponding fellow at the Ingeborg Rennert Center for Jerusalem Studies at Bar-Ilan University and a senior associate at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies. His most recent publications include translations of Albert the Great's Questions concerning Aristotle's "On Animals"; Petrus Alfonsi's Dialogue Against the Jews; and Peter Damian's Letters, all published in the Fathers of the Church Mediaeval Continuation Series by CUA Press.

Reviews

"Marks of Distinction is a thought-provoking book offering an abundance of fascinating textual and visual sources. One of its most valuable features is that it presents the Christian concepts and interpretations of biblical laws and customs along with their Jewish counterparts."--Zsófia Buda, Journal of Jewish Studies "Irven Resnick enters into this debate with this thoroughly researched and fascinating study Marks of Distinction offers a window into a wide array of medieval theories authors used to justify their contempt of Jews, lepers, and other outcasts, and this digs deep into the sometimes repulsive but endlessly fascinating underbelly of the medieval imagination."--Frans van Liere, Calvin College "Irven Resnick's study offers an intriguing contribution to the history of Western Christian anti-Semitism This book is a useful resource not only for medievalists, but also for a broader audience interested in the long history of anti-Semitism."--Holocaust and Genocide Studies "Peter's tract, it seems, has known few readers: there are but 4 manuscripts of the work, and it is almost never mentioned by later writersOne can congratulate the translator for having made accessible to a public of students and interested non-Latinists, in a fine translation informed by recent scholarship, a text important for understanding the thought of the Abbey of Cluny and the place of anti-Judaism in that thought."--