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Product Description This important study provides a paraphrase of the Christian accounts of the meetings between rabbis and clerics, and a complete translation of the Hebrew accounts of the disputations at Barcelona and Torotsa (the latter from the Shevet Yehudah). Maccoby fully describes the historical and social background, giving insight into the use by both sides of scriptural proof-texts. About the Author Hyam Maccoby was a British Jewish scholar and dramatist specialising in the study of the Jewish and Christian religious tradition.