Jerome Friedman
The Most Ancient Testimony: Sixteenth-Century Christian-Hebraica in the Age of Renaissance Nostalgia.
Ohio University Press, 1983. First edition. 0821407007 278 pages.
Volume, measuring approximately 6.25" x 9.25" is bound in dark brown cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to spine. Book is like new. Dust jacket shows light shelfwear.
Contents:
Medieval 'Hebraica Veritas' and Renaissance Hebrew study
Overview: the past as pattern
Michael Servetus: the reconstruction of the Christian past
Johannes Reuchlin: the discovery of the secret Jesus
Paul Fagius: the emergence of the Christian Pharisee
Overview: contours and variety of scriptural study
Unacceptable historical-literal interpretation
Acceptable cultural-ethnographic interpretation
The Basel-Wittenberg Conflict
Overview: Hebraica, Christians, and Jews
Judaization: theory and practice
The year 1538: A turning point
Luther, Charles V, Jews, and Hebraists
The Jewish Mission
A new interpretation of Christian Hebraica.