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
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-312) and index.
Table of contents: title: The Maimonidean controversy : in defense of reasonable faith; title: Timely matters : Nahmanides' historical reading of Genesis; title: The Barcelona disputation, text, rhetoric, and cultural politics; title: At the threshold of redemption : Daniel and messianic discourse in thirteenth-century Catalonia; title: Language and literature : Nahmanides' disputation account and narrative in the Catalonian vernacular.