Hebraica Veritas? Christian Hebraists and the Study of Judaism in Early Modern Europe

includes index and biblioraphy

PART I NEGOTIATING DIALOGUE 1 Polemic and Exegesis: The Varieties of Twelfth-Century Hebraism 21 Michael A. Signer 2 Man as the "Possible" Entity in Some Jewish and Renaissance Sources 33 Moshe Idel 3 Jews, Humanists, and the Reappraisal of Pagan Wisdom Associated with the Ideal of the Dignitas Hominis 49 Fabrizio Lelli 4 The Mechanics of Christian-Jewish Intellectual Collaboration in Seventeenth-Century Provence: N.-C. Fabri de Peiresc and Salomon Azubi 71 Peter N. Miller 5 John Selden`s De Jure Naturali. . . Juxta Disciplinam Ebraeorum and Religious Toleration 102 Jason P. Rosenblatt 6 Censorship, Editing, and the Reshaping of Jewish Identity: The Catholic Church and Hebrew Literature in the Sixteenth Century 125 Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin PART II IMAGINING DIFFERENCES 7 Skepticism and Conversion: Jews, Christians, and Doubters in Sefer ha-Nizzahon 159 Ora Limor and Israel Jacob Yuval 8 Reassessing the "Basel-Wittenberg Conflict": Dimensions of the Reformation-Era Discussion of Hebrew Scholarship 181 Stephen G. Burnett 9 Polemical Ethnographies: Descriptions of Yom Kippur in the Writings of Christian Hebraists and Jewish Converts to Christianity in Early Modern Europe Yaacov Deutsch 10 The "Jewish Quaker": Christian Perceptions of Sabbatai Zevi as an Enthusiast 234 Michael Heyd 11 Colliding Visions: Jewish Messianism and German Scholarship in the Eighteenth Century 266 Nils Roemer 12 Five Seventeenth-Century Christian Hebraists 286 Allison P. Coudert