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The Salvation of Israel
Jews in Christian Eschatology from Paul to the Puritans
Jeremy Cohen (Author)
9781501764721
Hardback, published 15 August 2022
344 pages, 17 b&w halftones, 8 color halftones - 17 Halftones, black and white - 8 Halftones, color
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm, 0.907 kg
Readers familiar with Cohen's previous scholarship will expect that the author's careful reading of primary sources from the late antique through early modern past will not only enhance our understanding of earlier eras but will also inform how we understand ourselves in our own present day, and they will not be disappointed. By calling attention to the many roles and faces of eschatological Jews in the construction of Christian as well as Western self-consciousness, Cohen has begun an important conversation. The Salvation of Israel is a much-needed study of the development of eschatological thought throughout early Christianity and the Middle Ages... an excellent resource for readers working across a broad historical range of Jewish-Christian relations Cohen is at his best as a historian. His methodology is refined, and he approaches the Christian texts with acumen and clarity. This text is an excellent work of historical scholarship that uses interpretations of Romans to outline Christians' perspectives on the salvation of the Jews, a topic deserving more attention
The Salvation of Israel investigates Christianity's eschatological Jew: the role and characteristics of the Jews at the end of days in the Christian imagination. It explores the depth of Christian ambivalence regarding these Jews, from Paul's Epistle to the Romans, through late antiquity and the Middle Ages, to the Puritans of the seventeenth century. Jeremy Cohen contends that few aspects of a religion shed as much light on the character and the self-understanding of its adherents as its expectations for the end of time. Moreover, eschatological beliefs express and mold an outlook toward nonbelievers, situating them in an overall scheme of human history and conditioning interaction with them as that history unfolds. Cohen's close readings of biblical commentary, theological texts, and Christian iconography reveal the dual role of the Jews of the last days. For rejecting belief and salvation in Jesus Christ, they have been linked to the false messiah—the Antichrist, the agent of Satan and the exemplary embodiment of evil. Yet from its inception, Christianity has also hinged its hopes for the second coming on the enlightenment and repentance of the Jews; for then, as Paul prophesized, "all Israel will be saved." In its vast historical scope, from the ancient Mediterranean world of early Christianity to seventeenth-century England and New England, The Salvation of Israel offers a nuanced and insightful assessment of Christian attitudes toward Jews, rife with inconsistency and complexity, thus contributing significantly to our understanding of Jewish-Christian relations.
Introduction
Part I: All Israel Will Be Saved
1. Paul and the Mystery of Israel's Salvation
2. The Pauline Legacy: From Origen to Pelagius
3. The Latin West: From Augustine to Luther and Calvin
Part II: The Jews and Antichrist
4. Antichrist and the Jews in Early Christianity
5. Jews and the Many Faces of Antichrist in the Middle Ages
6. Antichrist and Jews in Literature, Drama, and Visual Arts
Part III: At the Forefront of the Redemption
7. Honorius Augustodunensis, the Song of Songs, and Synagoga Conversa
8. Jewish Converts and Christian Salvation: Pablo de Santa María, Bishop of Burgos
9. Puritans, Jews, and the End of Days
Afterword