Hebraica Veritas? Christian Hebraists and the Study of Judaism in Early Modern Europe Edited by Allison P. Coudert and Jeffrey S. Shoulson "Superb. . . . Examining the Christian study of Hebrew and Jewish texts, mostly in early modern Europe (with some medieval materials included), the contributors probe the degree of positive interactions between Jews and Christian and also uncover heretofore-hidden Jewish contributions to the Western intellectual tradition."--Choice "An erudite collection of essays whose scholarship is clearly a match for the figures and writings which it is...
Hebraica Veritas? Christian Hebraists and the Study of Judaism in Early Modern Europe Edited by Allison P. Coudert and Jeffrey S. Shoulson "Superb. . ...
The fraught history of England's Long Reformation is a convoluted if familiar story: in the space of twenty-five years, England changed religious identity three times. In 1534 England broke from the papacy with the Act of Supremacy that made Henry VIII head of the church; nineteen years later the act was overturned by his daughter Mary, only to be reinstated at the ascension of her half-sister Elizabeth. Buffeted by political and confessional cross-currents, the English discovered that conversion was by no means a finite, discrete process. In "Fictions of Conversion," Jeffrey S. Shoulson...
The fraught history of England's Long Reformation is a convoluted if familiar story: in the space of twenty-five years, England changed religious i...
