TY - BOOK AU - Klepper,Deeana Copeland TI - The Insight of Unbelievers: Nicholas of Lyra and Christian Reading of Jewish Text in the Later Middle Ages T2 - Jewish Culture and Contexts SN - 9780812220216 AV - BM535 .K5554 2007eb U1 - 261.2/6094409023 22 PY - 2010///] CY - Philadelphia : PB - University of Pennsylvania Press, KW - Christian Hebraists KW - France KW - History KW - 14th century KW - Christianity and other religions KW - Judaism KW - Relations KW - Christianity KW - Rabbinical literature KW - History and criticism KW - Religious Studies KW - RELIGION / Judaism / History KW - bisacsh KW - Jewish Studies KW - Medieval and Renaissance Studies KW - Religion N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction --; Chapter 1. Medieval Christian Use of Hebrew and Postbiblical Jewish Texts --; Chapter 2. Nicholas of Lyra, O.F.M.: Mediating Hebrew Traditions for a Christian Audience --; Chapter 3. The Challenge of Unbelief: Knowing Christian Truth Through Jewish Scripture --; Chapter 4. Wrestling with Rashi: Nicholas of Lyra's Quodlibetal Questions and Anti-Jewish Polemic --; Chapter 5. Christian Ownership of Jewish Text: Nicholas of Lyra as an Alternative Jewish Authority --; Appendix: Manuscripts Consulted Containing Nicholas of Lyra's Quaestio de adventu Christi --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index --; Acknowledgments; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - In the year 1309, Nicholas of Lyra, an important Franciscan Bible commentator, put forth a question at the University of Paris, asking whether it was possible to prove the advent of Christ from scriptures received by the Jews. This question reflects the challenges he faced as a Christian exegete determined to value Jewish literature during an era of increasing hostility toward Jews in western Europe. Nicholas's literal commentary on the Bible became one of the most widely copied and disseminated of all medieval Bible commentaries. Jewish commentary was, as a result, more widely read in Latin Christendom than ever before, while at the same moment Jews were being pushed farther and farther to the margins of European society. His writings depict Jews as stubborn unbelievers who also held indispensable keys to understanding Christian Scripture. In The Insight of Unbelievers, Deeana Copeland Klepper examines late medieval Christian use of the Hebrew Bible and Jewish interpretation of Scripture, focusing on Nicholas of Lyra as the most important mediator of Hebrew traditions.Klepper highlights the important impact of both Jewish literature and Jewish unbelief on Nicholas of Lyra and on Christian culture more generally. By carefully examining the place of Hebrew and rabbinic traditions in the Christian study of the Bible, The Insight of Unbelievers elaborates in new ways on the relationship between Christian and Jewish scholarship and polemic in late medieval Europe UR - https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812200393 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812200393 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780812200393/original ER -