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Cursing the Christians? : a history of the birkat haminim /

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Ruth Langer offers an in-depth study of the birkat haminim, a Jewish prayer for the removal of those categories of human being who prevent the messianic redemption and the society envisioned for it. In its earliest form, the prayer cursed Christians apostates to Christianity, sectarians, and enemies...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Langer, Ruth, 1960-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, ©2012.
Subjects:
Birkat ha-minim.
Amidah (Jewish prayer)
Birkat ha-minim
Judaism > Relations > Christianity.
Christianity and other religions > Judaism.
Judaïsme > Relations > Christianisme.
Christianisme > Relations > Judaïsme.
Christianity
Interfaith relations
Judaism
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Origins and early history: late antiquity
  • Under early Islam: the period of the Geonim and the geniza
  • The birkat haminim in Europe of the High Middle Ages
  • Living with censorship?: early modern realities
  • The modern period: changes by choice to the text
  • Appendix 1. Geniza texts of the birkat haminim
  • Appendix 2. Evidence for the birkat haminim in the pre-Sephardized rites of the Muslim world
  • Appendix 3. Uncensored medieval European texts of the birkat haminim
  • Appendix 4. Censored texts of the birkat haminim, 1550 to the present
  • Appendix 5. Texts of the liberal movements.