...This chapter examines the Barcelona Disputation of 1263. The new approach was to attempt to prove the truth of Christianity from the Jewish writings, including the Talmud. Various Aggadic passages, collected from Talmud and Midrash, were thought to support Christian doctrines, especially...

... literature offers evidence that Jews were aware of the story of Jesus as related in the Gospels and basic Christian doctrines, against which they argued. In a later period, Jewish thinkers in Muslim countries polemicized against Christianity. This book therefore studies the Jewish philosophical polemic...

...This chapter outlines the theoretical basis of the Jewish polemic against Christian doctrines. According to the Jewish philosophical polemicists, one of the main differences between Judaism and Christianity lay in the former's conformity to reason and the latter's irrationality. To support...