Jewish Books and Their Readers - Aspects of the Intellectual Life of Christians and Jews in Early Modern Europe

Jewish Books and their Readers asks what constituted a 'Jewish' book in early modern Europe: how it was presented, disseminated, and understood within Jewish and Christian environments, and what effect this had on views of Jews and their intellectual heritage.

About the author

Scott Mandelbrote is Fellow, Director of Studies in History, and Perne and Ward Librarian at Peterhouse, University of Cambridge. His publications include The Garden, the Ark, the Tower, the Temple (with Jim Bennett; Oxford, 1998) and Nature and Scripture in the Abrahamic Religions (edited with Jitse van der Meer; Leiden, 2008).
Joanna Weinberg, Ph.D. (1982) is Professor of Early Modern Jewish History and Rabbinics at the University of Oxford. With Anthony Grafton she published "I have always loved the Holy Tongue" Isaac Casaubon, the Jews, and a Forgotten Chapter in Renaissance Learning (Cambridge, Mass., 2011), and with Michael Fishbane she edited and contributed to Midrash Unbound. Transformations and Innovations (Oxford, 2013).

Product details

• Assisted by: Scott Mandelbrote (Editor), Joanna Weinberg (Editor)
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.05.2016
• EAN: 9789004317888
• ISBN: 978-90-04-31788-8
• No. of pages: 396
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 241 mm x 27 mm
• Weight: 680 g
• Series: Brill's Church History
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity