Jewish-Christian Dialogue in Medieval French Literature

Examines a range of vernacular works within the context of Jewish and Christian exegetical traditions. Just as Jews and Christians encounter each other in unequal power relations in the "contact zones" of medieval cities, so the Hebrew Bible meets two Christian Testaments in dynamic tension. Vernacular literature mirrors that confrontation whenever it integrates biblical material, whether quotations and images, translation and paraphrase, people, events or practices. In whatever shape or form, t