Arguing Their Way to Salvation: Eschatology in Jewish-Christian Polemics of the Middle Ages
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- Introduction
- The use of eschatology in Jewish-Christian medieval discourse
- The Vikuah of Nahmanides
- The mythology of redemption and the medieval Jew
- The psychology of eschatology
- The 'Thirteen Principles of the Jewish Faith'
- The Rabbi's account of his 'Barcelona Disputation'
- The argument from Genesis 49
- The Vikuah as a straightforward rhetorical victory
- Conclusion
- Works cited
Abstract
This essay will investigate how issues of jewish messianism and eschatology were used as polemical devices in medieval disputations between Jews and their christian interlocutors. eschatology, the system of religious beliefs about the end of time, is a crucial theme in medieval Judeo-christian debate. To focus on the Judeo-christian polemical discourse surrounding eschatology is to hone in on an issue which naturally created the most dissonance between these groups in medieval times. eschatology presents a religion's case in terms of soteriology: beliefs about eschatology are beliefs about the nature of salvation and how one can live to attain such redemption. By rejecting the notion of Jesus as the Messiah, and thus the end-times of the christian resurrection, Judaism asserted its own philosophy of redemption.
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