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This volume brings together important research on: the reception and representation of Jews and Judaism in late medieval German thought, the works of major Reformation-era theologians, scholars, and movements, and in popular literature and the visual arts; it also explores social, intellectual, and cultural developments within Judaism and Jewish responses to the Reformation in sixteenth-century Germany.
About the author
Dean Philip Bell (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1995) is Dean/CAO of the Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies in Chicago. His research focuses on late medieval and early modern Germany and he is author of
Sacred Communities: Jewish and Christian Identities in Fifteenth-Century Germany (Brill, 2001).
Stephen G. Burnett (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1990) is Associate Professor of Classics and Religious Studies, and of History at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He is the author of
From Christian Hebraism to Jewish Studies: Johannes Buxtorf (1564-1629) and Hebrew Learning in the Seventeenth-Century (Brill, 1996), and numerous articles on Christian Hebraism and Jewish printing in the early modern period.
