"Slay them not": Twelfth-Century Christian-Jewish Relations and the Glossed Psalms

Linda Stone, Ph.D. (2014), University of Cambridge is an Associate of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge. Her research was supervised by Professor Anna Sapir Abulafia, and has focussed primarily on the presence of anti-Jewish polemic in the Glossa Ordinaria.

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Acknowledgments

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Introduction

1 The Jews and the Glossed Books – The Twelfth-century Context

 1.1 The Uses of the Glossed Books of the Bible

 1.2 The Compilers of the Glossed Books of the Bible

 1.3 Anselm and the Psalms

 1.4 Where are the parva Gloss Manuscripts?

 1.5 Manuscripts and Psalms

2 Anti-Jewish Polemic in the Glossed Books of the Bible

 2.1 The Historiography of Anti-Jewish Polemic in the Glossed Books of the Old Testament

 2.2 The Historiography of Anti-Jewish Polemic in the Glossed Books of the New Testament

 2.3 The Untapped Presence of Anti-Jewish Polemic in the Glossed Books of the Bible

3 The Glossed Psalms within the Framework of ­Pre-twelfth-century Anti-Jewish Polemic

 3.1 The Glossators’ Sources

 3.2 Selecting the Pre-twelfth-century Sources

 3.3 Pre-Augustinian Anti-Jewish Polemic

 3.4 Post-Augustinian Anti-Jewish Polemic

 3.5 Carolingian Anti-Jewish Polemic

 3.6 Eleventh-century Anti-Jewish Polemic

4 Anti-Jewish Polemic in the Twelfth-century Glossed Psalms

 4.1 Augustine’s Concept of testimonium veritatisand the Psalm Glosses

 4.2 Direct Anti-Jewish Polemic in the Psalm Glosses

 4.3 Anti-Jewish Polemic as a Foil for Christianity

5 Emergent Ideas Regarding Jews in the Glosses on the Psalms

 5.1 Emergent Twelfth-century Ideas Concerning the Jews

 5.2 The Jews, the Glosses and Emerging New Ideas for Present-day Scholarship

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Appendix

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Index