Two Nations in Your Womb

Perceptions of Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages

By: Israel Jacob Yuval, Barbara Harshav (Translator), Jonathan Chipman (Translator)

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Paperback | 19 August 2008 | Edition Number 1

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Since it was first published in Hebrew in 2000, this provocative book has been garnering acclaim and stirring controversy for its bold reinterpretation of the relationship between Judaism and Christianity in the Middle Ages, especially in medieval Europe. Looking at a remarkably wide array of source material, Israel Jacob Yuval argues that the inter-religious polemic between Judaism and Christianity served as a substantial component in the mutual formation of each of the two religions. He investigates ancient Jewish Passover rituals; Jewish martyrs in the Rhineland who in 1096 killed their own children; Christian perceptions of those ritual killings; and events of the year 1240, when Jews in northern France and Germany expected the Messiah to arrive. Looking below the surface of these key moments, Yuval finds that, among other things, the impact of Christianity on Talmudic and medieval Judaism was much stronger than previously assumed and that a "rejection of Christianity" became a focal point of early Jewish identity. Two Nations in Your Womb will reshape our understanding of Jewish and Christian life in late antiquity and over the centuries.

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List of Illustrations	p. ix
Preface to the Hebrew Edition	p. xi
Preface to the English Edition	p. xvii
Introduction: Et Major Serviet Minori (and the Elder Will Serve the Younger)	p. 1
The Thematic Framework	p. 1
The Early Typology: Esau Id Est Edom	p. 3
The Late Typology: Edom Id Est Roma	p. 10
The Conciliatory Approach of Modern Research	p. 20
The Mother, the Daughter, and the Sister	p. 26
Rome of Jerusalem: The Foundations of Jewish-Christian Hostility	p. 31
The Sons of Ephraim and the Son of Joseph	p. 33
Vindicta Salvatoris (The Vengeance of the Savior)	p. 38
Legends of the Destruction-Anti-Christian?	p. 49
The Passover of Egypt and the Passover of Jerusalem	p. 56
Development of the Stories	p. 62
Parallels Between the Jewish Haggadah and the Christian "Haggadahs"	p. 68
The "Midrash" of the Haggadah	p. 77
Conclusions	p. 87
A Note on the Research	p. 90
The Vengeance and the Curse: Hostility to Christianity Among Ashkenazic Jewry	p. 92
Vengeful Redemption	p. 93
Proselytizing Redemption	p. 109
The Curse	p. 115
The Curse on Yom Kippur	p. 119
Pour Out Thy Wrath	p. 123
The Impression of the Curses on Christians	p. 130
Intersecting Stories: From Martyrdom to Ritual Murder Accusations	p. 135
The Blood	p. 135
Self-Sacrifice	p. 144
The Sacrifice of Children	p. 154
The Libel	p. 159
The Impact of the Blood Sacrifice on Christians	p. 161
The Libel of Blois and the Story of Bristol	p. 190
Inverted Ceremonies: The Host, the Matzah, and the Quarrel	p. 205
The Great Sabbath	p. 209
The Burning of Leaven	p. 229
The Eruv of Courtyards	p. 236
The Afikoman	p. 239
Haroset	p. 248
Summary	p. 255
The End of the Millennium (1240): Jewish Hopes, Christian Fears	p. 257
Calculations of the End at the Turn of the Jewish Millennium	p. 258
Messianism, Immigration to the Land of Israel, and Settling the Land	p. 267
Fulda 1235, Paris 1240: Christian Reactions?	p. 274
The Mongolian Threat: The Ten Tribes? Gog and Magog?	p. 284
A Synchronic Overview	p. 288
A Jewish End and a Christian End	p. 291
Index	p. 297
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