Jews & Christians in Conflict

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For Centuries, Christians and Jews have argued over which group possesses the one true faith. This course surveys the shifting grounds of the debate from Antiquity to the present. Topics include: the emergence of early Christianity and rabbinic Judaism; the image of the Jew in medieval Christian literature and of the Gentile in Jewish law and Kabbalah; the decimation of Jewish communities during the Crusades; and the formal disputations between Jewish and Christian scholars. We conclude with a discussion of efforts in the wake of the Holocaust to achieve a degree of rapprochement between the faiths.