Cursing the Christians?
Subtitle: a history of the Birkat haminim
By: Ruth Langer
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng; heb
Number of pages: 389
ISBN-13: 9780199783175
Subjects: Judaism; Amidah (Jewish prayer); Relations; Christianity; Birkat ha-minim; Christianity and other religions
Description: Ruth Langer offers an in-depth study of the birkat haminim, a Jewish prayer for the removal of those categories of human being who prevent the messianic redemption and the society envisioned for it. In its earliest form, the prayer cursed Christians apostates to Christianity, sectarians, and enemies of Israel.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Origins and early history: late antiquity; title: Under early Islam: the period of the geonim and the Geniza; title: The Birkat haminim in Europe of the High Middle Ages; title: Living with censorship: early modern realities; title: The modern period: changes by choice to the text; title: Appendix 1. Geniza texts of the Birkat haminim; title: Appendix 2. Evidence for the Birkat haminim in the pre-Sephardized rites of the Muslim world; title: Appendix 3. Uncensored Medieval European texts of the Birkat haminim; title: Appendix 4. Censored texts of the Birkat haminim, 1550 to the present; title: Appendix 5. Texts of the liberal movements.