Augustine And the Jews: A Christian Defense of Jews and Judaism - Hardcover

Fredriksen, Paula

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0385502702 ISBN 13: 9780385502702

Publisher: Doubleday, 2008

Synopsis

Examines the role of Augustine of Hippo in combating the anti-Judaism sentiments of both his Manichaean opponents and of the early church, discussing his theological interpretation of ancient Jewish scripture and practice in terms of a source of New Testament and church beliefs. 25,000 first printing.

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Review:

A formidable work of cultural archaeology. Bryce Christensen, "Booklist"
--Bryce Christensen "Booklist ""

The important story of Augustine and the Jews has never been told as well or as thoroughly. . . . This book is one of those rare works that is both accessible to the general educated reader and of value to experts. Paul R./div>--Paul R. Kolbet "Religious Studies Review ""

Marvelous . . . Even in the massive field of Augustinian studies, this work stands out . . . A triumph of scholarship on issues which are still debated today. Robert McEachnie, "Bryn Mawr Classical Review"--Robert McEachnie "Bryn Mawr Classical Review ""

"A formidable work of cultural archaeology."--Bryce Christensen, Booklist
--Bryce Christensen "Booklist "

"It is a pleasure to write on a book that derives from a modern scholar's brain wave about the fateful insight of a thinker over a millennium and a half ago. . . . This is the story that Fredriksen tells with gusto. Her book is a masterpiece of passionately argued Augustinian scholarship."--;i>New York Review of Books
--Peter Brown "New York Review of Books "

"Marvelous . . . Even in the massive field of Augustinian studies, this work stands out . . . A triumph of scholarship on issues which are still debated today."--Robert McEachnie, Bryn Mawr Classical Review--Robert McEachnie "Bryn Mawr Classical Review "

"A formidable work of cultural archaeology."--Bryce Christensen, Booklist

--Bryce Christensen "Booklist "

"It is a pleasure to write on a book that derives from a modern scholar's brain wave about the fateful insight of a thinker over a millennium and a half ago. . . . This is the story that Fredriksen tells with gusto. Her book is a masterpiece of passionately argued Augustinian scholarship."--;I>New York Review of Books

--Peter Brown "New York Review of Books "

"The important story of Augustine and the Jews has never been told as well or as thoroughly. . . . This book is one of those rare works that is both accessible to the general educated reader and of value to experts."--Paul R./DIV>--Paul R. Kolbet "Religious Studies Review "

"Marvelous . . . Even in the massive field of Augustinian studies, this work stands out . . . A triumph of scholarship on issues which are still debated today."--Robert McEachnie, Bryn Mawr Classical Review--Robert McEachnie "Bryn Mawr Classical Review "

About the Author:

Paula Fredriksen is the Aurelio Professor of Scripture in the Department of Religion at Boston University.

About this edition

• Publisher: Doubleday
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0385502702
• ISBN 13: 9780385502702
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 488