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Examines the presence of anti-Semitism among the Greeks, Romans, and early Christians and argues that anti-Semitism was rare in the ancient world

Product Description: "Cohen argues that it was in the thirteenth century that a fundamental shift occurred in the Christian perception of both Judaism and Jews in Western Europe, and he attributes this change to the activities of the newly-formed mendicant orders―the Dominicans and Franciscans...read more

Product Description: Hearing the testimony of radical negation / Susan Shapiro -- In our terrible age : the tremendum of the Jews / Arthur Cohen -- Interruption of the forgotten / Rebecca Chopp -- ""Facing the Jews"" : Christian theology after Auschwitz / Johann-Baptist Metz -- Holocaust and political theology / Gregory Baum -- Holocaust and contemporary christology / John Pawlikowski -- Anti-Judaism in the New Testament / Luise Schottroff -- Contribution of church history to a post-Holocaust theology : Christian anti-Judaism as the root of anti-Semitism / Leonore Siegele-Wenschkewitz -- Holocaust in theology and philosophy : the question of truth / Mary Knutsen -- Holocaust writings : a literary genre? / Mary Gerhart -- Holocaust as interruption and the Christian return to history / Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza and David Tracy...read more

Discusses the Jewish heritage of Jesus Christ, traces the history of anti-Semitism, and surveys the accomplishments of Jewish politicians, scientists, artists, and entertainers

Product Description: Book by Littell, Franklin Hamlin

Analyzes the history of Judaism and anti-Semitism, discusses Christian attitudes towards the Jews

Product Description: A study of anti-Semitism and the Church.

Product Description: Writing neither in defense of the Jews, nor in the hope of converting Anti-Semites, the author rejects as inadequate and dangerous the economic and sociological interpretation of Anti-Semitism. He sees in it, not a form of ordinary racial intolerance or religious bigotry or political trickery, but a far deeper condition of the Western Christian mind...read more

Product Description: In this text, the author challenges traditional views that trace the source of Christian anti-Semitism to the presentation of Jews in the first four books of the New Testament. She argues that the unflattering depiction of Jews in the gospels is the result of Christian anti-Semitism...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Discusses the tenets of dominion theology, and argues that it poses a grave danger to Christians and Jews alike

Product Description: Book by Rausch, David A.

Product Description: An important resource in the study of Jewish history and the anti-jewish controversy.

Toward a Definition of Antisemitism offers new contributions by Gavin I. Langmuir to the history of antisemitism, together with some that have been published separately. The collection makes Langmuir's innovative work on the subject available to scholars in medieval and Jewish history and religious studies. The underlying question that unites the book is: what is antisemitism, where and when did it emerge, and why? After two chapters that highlight the failure of historians until recently to depict Jews and attitudes toward them fairly, the majority of the chapters are historical studies of crucial developments in the legal status of Jews and in beliefs about them during the Middle Ages. Two concluding chapters provide an overview. In the first, the author summarizes the historical developments, indicating concretely when and where antisemitism as he defines it emerged. In the second, Langmuir criticizes recent theories about prejudice and racism and develops his own general theory about the nature and dynamics of antisemitism.

Explains the background of the conflict between Catholics and Jews concerning the convent

Product Description: a comparison of the gospels from a Jewish born author who became a priest

The question of whether anti-Semitism is a transitory phenomenon, appearing randomly in Western history, or whether it reflects a deep seated tradition inherent in Western culture has been often debated. This volume traces the image of the Jew and the attitudes toward the Jew over the past two thousand years, from the Roman Empire to the reunification of Germany, showing the consistent pattern of anti-Semitism in Western societies. With essays on the religious, social, political, and economic origins of European and American anti- Semitism, as well as some Jewish responses, this volume is the most wide-ranging history of anti-Semitism ever compiled. Contributors to this volume include Nicholas de Lange, Cambridge University; Pinchas Hachoen Peli, University of the Negev; David Menashri, Tel Aviv University; Bernard Lewis, Princeton University (retired); Liliane Weissberg, University of Pennsylvania; and Jeremy Cohen, Ohio State University.

Product Description: The author marks the end of World War II as the closing of an important period of history and the possible new beginning for the Jewish people, the church, and the world at large. He cites two events as of major importance, the creation of the Jewish state of Israel and the second Vatican Counsel...read more