This volume explores the ways in which representatives of different monotheistic traditions experienced themselves as “the other” or were perceived and desc

In Christian Identity amid Islam in Medieval Spain Charles L. Tieszen explores a small corpus of texts from medieval Spain in an effort to deduce how their auth

What is a homeland and when does it become a national territory? Why have so many people been willing to die for such places throughout the twentieth century? W

A historical tour de force that demolishes the myths and taboos that have surrounded Jewish and Israeli history, The Invention of the Jewish People offers a new

Vol. 4 covers the late Roman period to the rise of Islam. Focuses especially on the growth and development of rabbinic Judaism and of the major classical rabbin