Nahmanides in medieval Catalonia
Subtitle: history, community, & messianism
By: Nina Caputo.
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Notre Dame, Ind
Language: eng
Number of pages: 317
ISBN-13: 9780268022938
Subjects: Naḥmanides, -- ca. 1195-ca. 1270.; Maimonides, Moses, -- 1135-1204.; Naḥmanides, -- ca. 1195-ca. 1270.; Naḥmanides, -- ca. 1195-ca. 1270 -- Language.; Bible. -- O.T. -- Genesis -- Commentaries.; Barcelona Disputation, Barcelona, Spain, 1263.; Christianity -- Controversial literature -- History and criticism.; Judaism -- Apologetic works -- History and criticism.; Christianity and other religions -- Judaism.; Judaism -- Relations -- Christianity.; Messianic era (Judaism); Messiah -- Judaism.; Catalan language.
Genres: Controversial literature; Apologetic works
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-312) and index.
Table of contents: value: The Maimonidean controversy : in defense of reasonable faith; value: Timely matters : Nahmanides' historical reading of Genesis; value: The Barcelona disputation, text, rhetoric, and cultural politics; value: At the threshold of redemption : Daniel and messianic discourse in thirteenth-century Catalonia; value: Language and literature : Nahmanides' disputation account and narrative in the Catalonian vernacular.