Jewish Philosophical Polemics Against Christianity in the Middle Ages: With a New Introduction (2nd ed.)

Thorough and meticulously researched, this studyis based on a comprehensive reading of philosophical arguments drawn from allthe major Jewish sources, published and unpublished, from the Geonic period inthe ninth century until the dawn of the Haskalah in the late eighteenthcentury. The core of the book is a detailed discussion ofthe four doctrines of Christianity whose rationality Jews thought they coulddefinitively refute: trinity, incarnation, transubstantiation, and virginbirth. In each case,