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The mark of Cain and the Jews : Augustine's theology of Jews and Judaism /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Unterseher, Lisa A., 1964-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Piscataway, NJ : Gorgias Press, 2009.
Edition:1st Gorgias Press ed.
Series:Gorgias dissertations ; 39.
Gorgias dissertations. Early Christian studies ; v. 9.
Subjects:
Augustine, > Saint, Bishop of Hippo.
Augustine, > Saint, Bishop of Hippo > Relations with Jews.
Christianity and other religions > Judaism.
Judaism > Relations > Christianity.
Christianity and antisemitism > History.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Augustine and the Adversus Judaeos tradition
  • A brief overview of scholarship on Augustine and the Jews
  • Outline of the book
  • The legal and social context of Augustine's theology of Judaism
  • The legal status of Judaism prior to Christian emperors
  • Imperial laws regarding Jews between 380-430
  • Augustine's knowledge of Jews in North Africa
  • Cain and Abel in the pre-Augustinian exegetical tradition
  • The salutary function of exegesis
  • Cain and Abel as moral exemplars
  • The salutary accent in Philo and Ambrose
  • The salutary import of Cain's punishments
  • Cain as representative of the Jews
  • Augustine's exegtical pilgrimage
  • De Genesi contra Manichaeos
  • De Utilitate credendi
  • Tyconius
  • De Doctrina christiana
  • Augustine's theology of Jews and Judaism
  • The theological concerns in the Contra faustum
  • The Christian tradition on the mosaic law
  • The spiritual significance of Sripture
  • The debate in book twelve of the Contra faustum
  • Augustine's exegesis on Genesis 4
  • Reverberating themes
  • The link between Genesis 4:15 and Psalm 58:12
  • Correspondence with Paulinus of Nola
  • De Civitate dei
  • Adversus Judaeos.