Hebraica Veritas?: Christian Hebraists and the Study of Judaism in Early Modern EuropeAllison Coudert, Jeffrey S. Shoulson In the early modern period, the religious fervor of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation, social unrest, and millenarianism all seemed to foster greater anti-Judaism in Christian Europe, yet the increased intolerance was also accompanied by more intimate and complex forms of interaction between Christians and Jews. Printing, trade, and travel combined to bring those from both sides of the religious divide into closer contact than ever before, while growing interest in magic and the Kabbalah encouraged Christians to study Hebrew in addition to Latin and Greek. In Hebraica Veritas? Christian Hebraists and the Study of Judaism in Early Modern Europe, noted scholars trace how these early modern encounters played key roles in defining attitudes toward personal, national, and religious identity in Western culture. |
Contents
Man as the Possible Entity in Some Jewish and Renaissance | 33 |
Jews Humanists and the Reappraisal of Pagan Wisdom Associated | 49 |
The Mechanics of ChristianJewish Intellectual Collaboration | 71 |
John Seldens De Jure Naturali Juxta Disciplinam Ebraeorum | 102 |
Jews Christians and Doubters | 159 |
Dimensions | 181 |
Descriptions of Yom Kippur in | 202 |
Christian Perceptions of Sabbatai Zevi | 234 |
Jewish Messianism and German Scholarship | 266 |
Five SeventeenthCentury Christian Hebraists | 286 |
List of Contributors | 309 |
Acknowledgments 317 | |