The Broken Staff: Judaism through Christian Eyes

Part 1 A gateway to the city of books. Part 2 Reknitting the severed connection: traces of medieval Christian Hebraists Iberia - the facade of coexistence the end of a thousand-year estrangement the Italian printing house, chrysalis of Hebraica. Part 3 Rival interpreters in the Renaissance and Reformation: Pico Della Mirandola and his Jewish mentors Johannes Reuchlin in defense of the Talmud Martin Luther, Sebastian Munster and John Calvin French Hebraists in a time of troubles rabbinic transmitters and Christian receptors. Part 4 The flowering of Christian Hebraism: the third culture scholars and popularizers the Buxtorfs of Basel Amsterdam, the New Jerusalem Bartolocci among the Neophytes the broad expanse of Judaica. Part 5 17th century uses of historical Judaism: conversion, the apostolic mission anatomy of the republic of the Hebrews biblical exegesis latterday Christian cabbala Judeophobia eschatology. Part 6 Transition to the enlightenment: a brazen reappraisal conformities of Judaism with Paganism ancient and modern Judaism supererogatory. Part 7 Assault of the English deists: uniqueness of Judaic monotheism denied the universality of natural religious sentiment prophecy and miracles reconsidered the barbarous Hebrews Bolingbroke's Lordly contempt Thomas Morgan, the moral philosopher dissolving the bond. Part 8 The French philosophes - an ambiguous record: Voltaire's obsession Baron d'Holbach's synagogue Diderot - a patchwork philosophy of the Jews Rousseau on the tenacity of mosaic law Montesquieu's spirit of Judaism. Part 9 Catholic vindications of Israel: residual Judeophobia in Italy and Spain academic dissertations on Jewish antiquities the biblical encyclopedism of Dom Augustin Calmet Abbe Guenee, secretary of the Jews Abbe Bergier - restoring the Judaic pillars of Christianity Abbe Gregoire on the regeneration of the Jews the revolutionary dispensation. Part 10 The German Janus: Juden in the Leipzig Lexicon Michaelis' ethnology of the ancient Hebrews the spirit of sacred Hebrew poetry - Lowth and Herder birth of the Judenfrage Dohm's final solution the predicament of Moses Mendelssohn the Euthanasia of Judaism the flawed legacy of the enlightenment. Part 11 The aftermath of liberation: Judeophobia and antisemitism - the dark backdrop the science of Judaism the higher criticism the origins of Christianity the semites of Renan and Gobineau David Strauss and the lives of Jesus the Dead Sea scrolls in search of a common ground.