Tradition, Heterodoxy and Religious Culture: Judaism and Christianity in the Early Modern Period

This collection of essays explores the religious cultures and encounters of Judaism and Christianity in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It focuses on both intra—religious and inter- religious aspects of these cultures and encounters, in a period which saw the breakdown of religious consensus, the rise of science, the growing impact of printing, and encounters with numerous ‘others’. Contributors: Golda Akhiezer, Lawrence Besserman, Ann Brener, Sanford Budick, Cedric Cohen-Skalli, Nirit Ben—Aryeh Debby, Noam Flinker, Matt Goldish, Chanita Goodblatt, Abraham Gross, Achsah Guibbory, Boaz Huss, William Kolbrener, Albert C. Labriola, Aaron Landau, Daniel J. Lasker, Arthur F. Marotti, Anne Lake Prescott,“Amnon Raz-Krakozkin, Michael N. Rony, Jeanne Shami, Ellen Spolsky, Daniel M. Unger. Chanita Goodblatt lectures on English literature at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and works primarily on‘Christian Hebraism in Early Modern England.  

Publisher:

negev press

Pages:

488

Date Published:

2006