Jews, Church & Civilization, Volume I
Author : David Birnbaum
Publisher : David Birnbaum
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 45,54 MB
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ISBN : 0988514508
Author : David Birnbaum
Publisher : David Birnbaum
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 45,54 MB
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Author : James Carroll
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 774 pages
File Size : 50,66 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780618219087
A rare book that combines searing passion with a subject that has affected all of our lives. "Chicago Tribune" Novelist, cultural critic, and former priest James Carroll marries history with memoir as he maps the two-thousand-year course of the Church s battle against Judaism and faces the crisis of faith it has sparked in his own life. Fascinating, brave, and sometimes infuriating ("Time"), this dark history is more than a chronicle of religion. It is the central tragedy of Western civilization, its fault lines reaching deep into our culture to create a deeply felt work ("San Francisco Chronicle") as Carroll wrangles with centuries of strife and tragedy to reach a courageous and affecting reckoning with difficult truths."
Author : David Birnbaum
Publisher : David Birnbaum
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 44,1 MB
Release : 2015-01-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0984361936
Author : David Birnbaum
Publisher : David Birnbaum
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 14,89 MB
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Publisher : David Birnbaum
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 48,57 MB
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ISBN : 0988514516
Author : David Birnbaum
Publisher : David Birnbaum
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 47,56 MB
Release : 2020-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0980171059
Author : Jacob Neusner
Publisher : Abingdon Press
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 23,23 MB
Release : 2010-08-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1426719418
World Religions Religious Foundations of Western Civilization introduces students to the major Western world religions—Judaism, Christianity, and Islam—their beliefs, key concepts, history, as well as the fundamental role they have played, and continue to play, in Western culture. Contributors include: Jacob Neusner, Alan J. Avery-Peck, Bruce D. Chilton, Th. Emil Homerin, Jon D. Levenson, William Scott Green, Seymour Feldman, Elliot R. Wolfson, James A. Brundage, Olivia Remie Constable, and Amila Buturovic. "This book provides a superb source of information for scientists and scholars from all disciplines who are trying to understand religion in the context of human cultural evolution." David Sloan Wilson, Professor, Departments of Biology and Anthropology, Binghamton University, Binghamton, New York This is the right book at the right time. Globalization, religious revivalism, and international politics have made it more important than ever to appreciate the significant contributions of the Children of Abraham to the formation and development of Western civilization. John L. Esposito, University Professor and Founding Director of the Center for Muslm-Christian Understanding, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. Jacob Neusner is Research Professor of Religion and Theology, and Senior Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Theology at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. General Interest/Other Religions/Comparative Religion
Author : Bezalel Narkiss
Publisher : Book Sales
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 21,60 MB
Release : 1978
Category : History
ISBN : 9781555211004
Traces developments during three thousand years of Jewish cultural, intellectual, and social history
Author : Hyam Maccoby
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 26,93 MB
Release : 1984-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1909821454
'A superb work of committed scholarship . . . a work full of interest to those already familiar with the material it contains, and compelling reading for those who are not. Maccoby has done a fine job in recapturing the intellectual and social drama of the confrontations.' Jonathan Sacks, Jewish Journal of Sociology Hyam Maccoby's now classic study focuses on the major Jewish—Christian disputations of medieval Europe: those of Paris (1240), Barcelona (1263), and Tortosa (1413-14).
Author : Joseph Shatzmiller
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 18,14 MB
Release : 2017-05-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0691176183
Demonstrating that similarities between Jewish and Christian art in the Middle Ages were more than coincidental, Cultural Exchange meticulously combines a wide range of sources to show how Jews and Christians exchanged artistic and material culture. Joseph Shatzmiller focuses on communities in northern Europe, Iberia, and other Mediterranean societies where Jews and Christians coexisted for centuries, and he synthesizes the most current research to describe the daily encounters that enabled both societies to appreciate common artistic values. Detailing the transmission of cultural sensibilities in the medieval money market and the world of Jewish money lenders, this book examines objects pawned by peasants and humble citizens, sacred relics exchanged by the clergy as security for loans, and aesthetic goods given up by the Christian well-to-do who required financial assistance. The work also explores frescoes and decorations likely painted by non-Jews in medieval and early modern Jewish homes located in Germanic lands, and the ways in which Jews hired Christian artists and craftsmen to decorate Hebrew prayer books and create liturgical objects. Conversely, Christians frequently hired Jewish craftsmen to produce liturgical objects used in Christian churches. With rich archival documentation, Cultural Exchange sheds light on the social and economic history of the creation of Jewish and Christian art, and expands the general understanding of cultural exchange in brand-new ways.