Essential Papers on Judaism and Christianity in Conflict

Providing a discussion of the Jewish experience in Mediterranean and Western societies over the last 2000 years, these papers concentrate on the doctrinal substance of the Jewish-Christian dispute in the order that it developed. The contributors include David Flusser, Wayne A.Meeks, S.G.F.Brandon, Marcel Simon, Rosemary Radford Ruether, B.Blumenkranz, Solomon Grayzel, H.Liebeschutz, Lester K.Little, Cecil Roth, Mark U.Edwards, Salo W.Baron, Kenneth R.Stow, Lawrence H.Schiffman, Jacob Katz, Ivan G.Marcus, David Berger, and David B.Ruderman. Jeremy Cohen is the author of "The Friars and the Jews: the Evolution of Anti-Judaism" (1982) which received the US National Jewish Book Award for Scholarship.