Fashioning Jewish Identity in Medieval Western Christendom

includes index and biblioraphy

1.Backdrop Jesus and the jews : The gospel Accounts......25 Post-gospel christian argumentation : Continuities and expansions...............46 Pre-twelfth-century jewish argumentation.............67 2. Data and foundations The Jewish polemicists of Southern France and northern spain.........91 Scriptural and alternative lines of Argumentation.....122 3. Jesus as messiah Biblical prophecy : Messianic advent.....143 Biblical Prophecy : The messiah reviled and vindicated ..........162 4. Rejection of the messiah and rejection of the jews Biblical prophecy and empirical observation : Displacement of the Jews..............181 Biblical Prophecy: Redemption of the jews.........198 Biblical prophecy and empirical observation : Christian Failure...............215 5. The messiah Human and divine Biblical Prophaecy: The messiah Human and divine ..........233 Human reason : The messiah human and divine ..........250 6. Jewish polemicists on the Attack Christian Scripture and jesus........281 Comparative behaviors : Jewish achievement and christian Shortcoming ..........298 7. Underlying issues Techniques of Persuasion.............317 Fashioning identities - other and self...........339