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https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12202/8786| Title: | Trinitarian and multiplicity polemics in the biblical commentaries of Rashi, Rashbam, and Bekhor Shor. |
| Authors: | Kanarfogel, Ephraim 0000-0002-7539-7802 |
| Keywords: | medieval Jewish history muliplicity polemics Rashi Rashbam Bekhor Shor Jewish-Christian polemics High Middle Ages Trinity virgin birth |
| Issue Date: | 1979 |
| Publisher: | Student Organization of Yeshiva Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary, Yeshiva University |
| Citation: | Kanarfogel, E. (1979). Trinitarian and multiplicity polemics in the biblical commentaries of Rashi, Rashbam, and Bekhor Shor. Gesher, 7, 15-37. |
| Series/Report no.: | Gesher;vol. 7 |
| Abstract: | The Old Testament was the single most important source for proof-texts in Jewish-Christian polemics of the High Middle Ages. Christians attempted to show that doctrines such as the Trinity and virgin birth were implicit and sometimes even explicit in Biblical verses. Moreover, the Old Testament foretold the suffering to be endured by the Jews following their repudiation of Jesus, and the ultimate salvation that Jesus would bring to his followers. The use of the Old Testament in this manner was not an innovation of the Christian polemicists in the High Middle Ages. Since the days of the Church Fathers, leading Christians had adduced Old Testament verses as proofs for their doctrines and had even collected them in literary form.1 |
| Description: | Scholarly article |
| URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12202/8786 |
| Appears in Collections: | Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies (BRGS): Faculty Publications |
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