This study examines the techniques of persuasion adopted by the Jewish polemicists.
Foreword
Introduction
Part I. Backdrop: 1. Jesus and the Jews: the Gospel accounts
2. Post-Gospel Christian argumentation: continuities and expansions
3. Pre-twelfth-century Jewish argumentation
Part II. Data and Foundations: 4. The Jewish polemicists of southern France and northern Spain
5. Scriptural and alternative lines of argumentation
Part III. Jesus as Messiah: 6. Biblical prophecy: messianic advent
7. Biblical prophecy: the Messiah reviled and vindicated
Part IV. Rejection of the Messiah and Rejection of the Jews: 8. Biblical prophecy and empirical observation: displacement of the Jews
9. Biblical prophecy: redemption of the Jews
10. Biblical prophecy and empirical observation: Christian failures
Part V. The Messiah Human and Divine: 11. Biblical prophecy: the Messiah human and divine
12. Human reason: the Messiah human and divine
Part VI. Jewish Polemicists on the Attack: 13. Christian scripture and Jesus
14. Comparative behaviors: Jewish achievement and Christian shortcoming
Part VII. Underlying Issues: 15. Techniques of persuasion
16. Fashioning identities - other and self
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