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Introduction: Jews and Christians in Thirteenth-Century France Elisheva Baumgarten and Judah D. Galinsky PART I: LEARNING, LAW, AND SOCIETY 1. Continuity and Change in the Study of the Bible: the Ten Commandments in Christian Exegesis Lesley Smith 2. Psalters for Men, Books of Hours for Women: Arras as a Case Study Margo Strumsa-Uzan 3. What Happened to Christian Hebraism in the Thirteenth Century? Ari Geiger 4. I Have Asked for Nothing except the Ius Commune : Legal Change in Thirteenth-Century France Karl Shoemaker 5. Between Ashkenaz (Germany) and Tsarfat (France): Two Approaches towards Popularizing Jewish Law Judah D. Galinsky 6. Authority, Control and Conflict in Thirteenth-Century Paris: Contextualizing the Talmud Trial Yosef Schwartz PART II: POLEMICS, PERSECUTIONS, AND MUTUAL PERCEPTIONS 7. Joseph ben Nathan's Sefer Yosef ha-Mekanne and the Medieval Jewish Critique of Christianity Daniel J. Lasker 8. How, When, and To What Degree was the Jewish-Christian Debate Transformed in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries? David Berger 9. Of Milk and Blood: Innocent III and the Jews, revisited John Tolan 10. Image of Christians in Medieval Ashkenazic Rabbinic Literature Ephraim Kanarfogel 11. Jews Feigning Devotion: Christian Representations of Converted Jews in French Chronicles before and after the Expulsion of 1306 Jessica Marin Elliot 12. Women behind the Law: Lay Religious Women in Thirteenth-Century France and the Problem of Textual Resistance Anne E. Lester PART III: CULTURAL EXPRESSIONS AND APPROPRIATIONS: ART, POETRY, AND LITERATURE 13. Mirroring Samson the Martyr: Reflections of Jewish-Christian Relations in the North French Hebrew Illuminated Miscellany Sara Offenberg 14. Lament on the Martyrs of Troyes as a Monument of Judeo-French on the Verge of the Expulsions Cyril Aslanov 15. Exegesis and Romance: Revisiting the Old French Translation of Kallir Susan E. Einbinder, with an appendix by Samuel N. Rosenberg 16. Abstinence in Medieval France: Comparison of A Slave for Seven Years in Sefer ha-ma'asim to The Life of St. Alexis Rella Kushelevsky

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