Saints and Role Models in Judaism and Christianity

This volume deals with the role of saints and exemplary persons in Judaism and Christianity throughout history to the present time in an interdisciplinary perspective.

About the author

Marcel J.H.M. Poorthuis, Ph.D. (1992) in Theology, Catholic Theological University of Utrecht, is lecturer in Rabbinics and Jewish Christian relations. He has published on the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas, on Jewish history and on the interaction between Church Fathers and Rabbinics.
Joshua Schwartz, Ph.D. (1981), Jewish History, Hebrew University, is Dean, Faculty of Jewish Studies and Director, Ingeborg Rennert Center for Jerusalem Studies, Bar-Ilan. He has published extensively on the historical geography of ancient Israel and Jerusalem.

Product details

• Assisted by: Marcel Poorthuis (Editor), Joshua J Schwartz (Editor), Joshua J. Schwartz (Editor)
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.12.2003
• EAN: 9789004126145
• ISBN: 978-90-04-12614-5
• No. of pages: 504
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 241 mm x 32 mm
• Weight: 898 g
• Series: Jewish and Christian Perspecti
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Judaism