Augustine and the Jews; a Christian defense of Jews and Judaism.

9780385502702

Augustine and the Jews; a Christian defense of Jews and Judaism.

Fredriksen, Paula.

Doubleday

2008

488 pages

$35.00

Hardcover

BR65

Fredriksen (scripture, Boston U.) places the third-century AD Augustine's defense of Jews in the context of the long history of the Greco-Roman Mediterranean civilization from the conquests of Alexander the Great in the forth century BCE to the beginning of the twilight of the western Christian empire in fifth-century. From there, she narrows her focus first to Augustine's life and thought, and again to the evolution and revolution of his theology of Jews and Judaism.

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