Ashkenazic Talmudic Interpretation and The Jewish–Christian Encounter.

Abstract

This study looks anew at the interactions and possible in uences between the monastic and cathedral school masters in Europe during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, and the leading contemporary scholars of the Talmud in northern France and Germany known as the Tosafists. By focusing on significant commonalities in interpretational methods and institutional structures, as well as on the formulations of various critics, the contours of these interactions can be more precisely charted and assessed.