Rashi ṿeha-pulmus ha-Yehudi-ha-Notsri
By: Avraham Grosman; ʻarikhah leshonit : Dr. ʻOded Porat
Contributors: Porat, Oded, editor
Publisher: Universiṭat Bar-Ilan
Published: 2021
Place of publication: Ramat Gan
Language: heb
Number of pages: 405
ISBN-13: 9789652266057
Subjects: Religious disputations; Judaism; Relations; Christianity; History; Christianity and other religions; Gentiles in rabbinical literature
Other titles: Rashi and the Jewish-Christian polemic /
Description: Rashi saw before him three sacred missions, to which he devoted his diverse literary enterprise: the interpretation of the Bible and the Talmud; strengthening the Jewish community; controversy with Christianity. While the first two missions were widely used in the research literature, the third mission was only partially discussed. "Rashi and the Judeo-Christian Controversy" came to fill this void. The essay is written in a broad historical perspective that includes Rashi's work in many and varied fields, directly or indirectly related to the Judeo-Christian controversy that gained great momentum in his day. The Christian Church in the thirteenth century saw Rashi as its main enemy, claiming that it harmed the saints of Christianity and its efforts to convert Jews to their religion. Many of Rashi's controversies have been erased by Christian censorship, erasures reflected in the patterns of interpretation. On the other hand, Rashi's controversies have been preserved in manuscripts, which are widely used in the book.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

In Hebrew with added English title page and table of contents.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The religious polemic and its development; title: Rashi's sense of mission; title: Seven books of the Bible and Rashi's commentary: Isaiah, Zechariah, Psalms, Proverbs, Song of Songs, Lamentations, Daniel; title: Explicit polemics with Christianity; title: Unspecified prophecies against Christianity; title: Recoil from close relations with foreigners; title: Historical concretization of biblical Prophecies and heartening the refugees; title: Midrashim and Rashi's own formulations; title: Original homilies by Rashi and his use of religious polemics; title: The love of Jacob and the hatred of Esau; title: The preeminence of the people of Israel and their eternal superiority; title: Epilogue; title: Bibliography; title: Indexes.; title: 880-04