New Perspectives on Jewish-Christian Relations In Honor of David Berger

includes index and biblioraphy

1. Christianity Triumphalism and Anti-Jewish Violence On the Authenticity of the Testimonium Flavianum Attributed to Josephus..........13 The menorah and the Cross: Historiographical Reflections on a recent discovery from Laodicea on the Lycus ...........31 Judaizing the passion : The case of the Crown of Thorns in the Middle Ages ..............51 Unless the lord watches Over the city ...: Joan of Aragon and his Jews, June-OCtober 1931..........65 2. Christian Mission and Jewish Conversion Genesis 49-10 in Thirteenth-Century Christian Missionizing .......93 The Different Hebrew versions of the Talmud Trial of 1240 in Paris .........109 An Infant`s Missionary sermon addressed to the Jews of Rome in 1553..........141 Rabbi Jonathan Eibeschuetz and the Alleged Jewish-Christian sect in Eighteenth-Century Amsterdam .......175 3. The imprint of Christian Society on Internal Jewish culture Patterns Seeking signs? Jews, Christians, and Proof by Fire in Medieval Germany and Northern France ...........205 A medieval Judeo-Spanish poem on the complementarity of Faith and works and its intellectual roots ......227 Because our wives trade and do business with our Goods: Gender , works and jewish - christian Relations .............241 4. Jewish Evaluations of Christianity Meiri and the Non-Jew: A comparative Investigation........265 Changing attitudes Toward Apostates in Tosafist Literature, Late Twelfth- early thirteenth centuries ...............297 The portuguese Jews of Amsterdam and the Status of Christians ..........329 Rabbi Jacob Emden, Sabbatianism and Frankism : Attitudes toward christianity in the eighteenth Century ..........359 5. Jewish Polemical Strategies in light of Christianity and Islam Rashi`s Position on Prophecy among the nations and the Jewish-Christian polemic ...........399 Isaiah`s Suffering servant and the Jews:From the nineteenth Century to the Ninth ..........419 Peshat or Polemics: The case of Genesis 36........437 Maimonides Attitude toward christian biblical Hermeneutics in light of Earlier Jewish Sources ............455 Karaism and Christianity : An Evolving Relationship ................477 6. Contemporary Jewish-Christian Relations Morality, Liberalism, and Interfaith Dialogue ..............491 The Jewish people and their sacred Scriptures in the Christian Bible, by the Pontifical Biblical Commission .................521