The Broken Staff: Judaism through Christian Eyes

Frank E. Manuel

Published by Harvard University Press 1992

The Broken Staff

Judaism through Christian Eyes

Frank E. Manuel

https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674865020

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Manuel Frank E. :

Frank E. Manuel was Kenan Professor, Emeritus, New York University, and Alfred and Viola Hart University Professor, Emeritus, Brandeis University.

Reviews

This work by a distinguished intellectual historian of early modernity charts the developing image of Judaism held in various Christian circles from the 13th century to the present...[It] is a treasure of information and is full of deeply perceptive insights.

[An] erudite and pioneering work on the Christian relationship to Judaism.

Manuel shows that the story of Europe's discovery of Judaism was as rich, as complex, and sometimes as paradoxical as the better-known story of the discovery of ancient Greece and Rome...Manuel tells his complicated story with clarity and panache...The Christian enterprise of understanding Judaism has been, and probably will remain, a torment as well as a stimulus to both parties. It is a situation that is not likely to change--except, perhaps, in Manuel's utopian future. But his learned and honest book exposes the twisted, bitter roots of error. A master historian has practiced his necessary craft.

Mr. Manuel's aim is to set Jewish and Hebrew scholarship against the background of Christian obsessions, in a sense to see it as an aspect of Christian ideas, a subject that the author of books on Isaac Newton and modern utopias, who has long taught history at Brandeis and New York University, is well qualified to present in grand perspective...[A] tightly packed and learned book.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	v
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
1. A Gateway to the City of Books Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. Reknitting the Severed Connection Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
3. Rival Interpreters in the Renaissance and Reformation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
4. The Flowering of Christian Hebraism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	66
5. Seventeenth–Century Uses of Historical Judaism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	108
6. Transition to the Enlightenment Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	162
7. Assault of the English Deists Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	175
8. The French Philosophes: An Ambiguous Record Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	192
9. Catholic Vindications of Israel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	222
10. The German Janus Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	249
11. The Aftermath of Liberation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	293
Illustrations Notes Index
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Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	349
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	355

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Language: English
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Edition: Reprint 2014
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Front matter: 9
- Main content: 363
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 20
- Other: 21 halftones
Keywords: RELIGION / General; HISTORY / Jewish; Judaism (Christian theology) -- History of doctrines.; Judaism -- Relations -- Christianity.; Christianity and other religions -- Judaism.

eBook

Published: October 1, 2013
ISBN: 9780674865020

Hardcover

Published: February 5, 1992
ISBN: 9780674865013