The two volumes of "The Church and the Jews in the XIII Century" provide a presentation of scores of papal documents together with translations, notes, and a thorough introduction. This text of the first volume has served historians of the popes and the Jews for nearly fifty years as one repository of source materials for the important period 1198-1254. Solomon Grayzel concluded that until the nuances of papal teachings were understood through the insights gained from a continued revelation of new texts, the perception of papal policies toward the Jews would remain incomplete, and inaccurate. Thus he spent years collecting additional material. The format of the second volume (1254-1314) varies somewhat from that of the first volume; detailed summaries of the Latin texts are given rather than translations.

The Church and the Jews in the XIIIth Century: Volume II - 1254-1314

Religion & Spirituality

Solomon Grayzel

Christian Books & Bibles

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In 1555 the Roman Catholic papacy announced major innovations in its Jewry policy. Previously, despite the existence in theory of repressive canonical legislation, Jews living under direct papal rule had enjoyed relative freedom of movement and numerous exemptions from legal restrictions. The many papal expressions concerning the hoped-for conversion of the Jews had also remained no more than a pious wish. From 1555, however, and for the next three hundred years, the papacy insisted on the enforcement of all the repressive Jewry laws, and required Jews to live bound in ghettos. More threatening, it launched an active and by no means unsuccessful conversionary program. The present study examines the underlying causes and ideology of these actions. Based in part on documentation from the papal archives and from various publicist writers of the period, it concentrates on the De ludaeis et Aliis Infidelibus by Marquardus de Susannis, a core text which clearly illuminates the motives behind the new policy. This legal-polemical tract, dating from 1558, is also the first synthetic exposition of medieval Roman and canon Jewry law. The author has examined this text for its own merits, and an index of the laws and commentaries cited in the tract have been appended here as an introduction to the significant, yet all but neglected, subject of the Jews in medieval law. Because it reviews in detail a substantially unknown facet of the sixteenth-century papacy, and of canon law in general, Catholic Thought and Papal Jewry Policy merits the attention of both Jewish and Christian scholars.

Catholic Thought and Papal Jewry Policy 1555 -1593

Stow, Kenneth R.

Louis Finkelstein's edition of the classical Tannaitic Halakhic Midrash on the Book of Leviticus, named Sifra or Torat Kohanim, includes five volumes: Vol.I - Introduction; Vol.II - Text of Sifra according to Vatican Manuscript Assemani 66, with brief commentary; Vol.III - Variants from other manuscripts, early printed editions and quotations by medieval authorities; Vol.IV - long commentary; Vol.V (issued posthumously)- consists of two parts: Indices to Vols. I-IV and Selected Studies in Midrash Halakha, articles written by Prof. Louis Finkelstein in Hebrew and English.

Sifra on Leviticus v. 1 (Hebrew Edition)

Finkelstein, Louis

Judaism

In this book, master Talmudist and scholar of the Greco-Roman world, the late Professor Saul Lieberman, elucidates words, texts, customs, and practices in either rabbinic or classical literature, often by reference to passages in the other. In “Greek in Jewish Palestine”, he demonstrates that “almost every foreign word and phrase have their raison d'etre in rabbinic literature” and that “all Greek phrases in rabbinic literature are quotations.” “Hellenism in Greek Palestine” is “an inquiry into the spirit of many rabbinic observations and investigations of the facts, incidents, opinions, notions and beliefs to which the Rabbis allude in their statements.”

Greek in Jewish Palestine/Hellenism in Jewish Palestine

Reference

Lieberman, Prof Saul

Words, Language & Grammar

The example of a new, revolutionary approach to the study of Talmud.

Talmud Arukh: BT Bava Mezi'a VI, Commentary: Critical Edition with Comprehensive Commentary (Hebrew Edition)

Friedman, Shamma Yehuda

"Textual Knowledge" is for anyone teaching the Holy Scriptures of the Jewish people. Although it explores things central to Jewish education, it can't but be also be of interest to educators from other religious traditions and for those teaching the Bible in secular institutions such as universities. The reason for it is because the primary thrust of this work is not so much the Bible, but its pedagogy - to make it deeper, richer, more thoughtful and thus more powerful for students of any age and in any setting.

Textual Knowledge: Teaching the Bible in Theory and in Practice (Jewish Education)

Holtz, Barry W.

Over the last twenty years, the Jewish community system has invested considerable hopes and substantial resources in the burgeoning phenomenon of Jewish education for adults. What has been the impact of this investment? How does adult Jewish learning make a difference in people's lives? This pioneering study of the Florence Melton Mini-School provides some answers to these and related questions. The authors found that the learners emerge with greater appreciation for and competence in Jewish text learning, increased and deeper connections with other Jews, and a much richer appreciation for the practice and observance of Judaism. How and why these impacts occur unfolds through the authors' exploration into the conception, curriculum, and personnel that shape the Florence Melton Adult Mini-School. Through interviews, classroom observations, a survey of graduates, as well as a careful examination of teaching materials and other documents, they present a vivid portrait of an adult Jewish learning institution that operates in more than sixty sites across North America, Great Britain, Australia, and Israel.

Journey of Heart and Mind: Transformative Jewish Learning in Adulthood

Grant, Lisa D.

Thesaurus of Mediaeval Hebrew Poetry: Otzar haShira v'haPiyut (Hebrew Edition)

Davidson, Israel

The Jews in the Greek Age

History

Bickerman, Elias J.

World

Talmud: Masekhet B'rachot: A Commentary on the Palestinian Talmud (Hebrew Edition)

Ginzberg, Louis

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