The Footsteps of Israel: Understanding Jews in Anglo-Saxon England. By Andrew P. Scheil. Pp. xii + 372. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2004. isbn 0 472 11408 5. 65/£40
So far as we can tell, Jews did not settle in England until after the Norman Conquest. Therefore, Jews were known in Anglo-Saxon England only by hearsay, imaginations were fed from the writings and teachings of the Christian Church, and opinions were generally second-hand and often unthinking. Dr Sc...
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2006
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2006, Volume: 57, Issue: 1, Pages: 344-347 |
| Review of: | The footsteps of Israel (Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan Press, 2004) (Roberts, Jane)
The footsteps of Israel (Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan Press, 2004) (Roberts, Jane) |
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| Summary: | So far as we can tell, Jews did not settle in England until after the Norman Conquest. Therefore, Jews were known in Anglo-Saxon England only by hearsay, imaginations were fed from the writings and teachings of the Christian Church, and opinions were generally second-hand and often unthinking. Dr Scheil has done us the service of probing the evidence extant in Latin and English for how Anglo-Saxons understood Jews, and he demonstrates, in a four-part structure with two chapters in each part, differing and changing perceptions of what he terms, in his general introduction, ‘one element in the vast system of assumptions about the world and humanity's place in it’ (p. 4). |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flj046 |