This study is an annotated edition and commentary of an Arabic-Old French phrase book found on the last thirteen pages of a Coptic lexicographic treatise compiled in the thirteenth century and recopied in the sixteenth century (MS. BnF Copte 53). The main value of this work is twofold: first, it is a specimen of the Crusader Old French, of which little has been preserved; and second, it provides evidence for the vernacular language of the period. In the analysis of the material, an attempt has been made to reconstruct from a diachronic-diatopic perspective the vernacular French spoken at Acre in the mid-thirteenth century. This volume will be of interest for Romance linguists and philologists, as well as historians of the Crusades and the Latin East. Arabists and historians of the late medieval Muslim Middle East of this time will also find much of use in this work.

For the first time the reader of the Hebrew language is presented with a book uncovering the unique activity of the German-Catholics in 19th century Eretz Israel. Those are the builders, for example, of the Dormition in Jerusalem and the Hospice in Tabgha.

The present work is based upon Flusser’s 1968 edition of Jesus. Yet, with the passage of 30 years, the new volume has been essentially rewritten to incorporate the wealth of new data. Whereas the previous book, now out of print, represented the beginnings of Flusser’s investigation into the historical Jesus, the present volume is its culmination.

This book is a continuation of the previous book History of Poetry in Muslim Spain . It describes the history of Hebrew poetry in Spain from the 12th century up to the 15th century. Shirman and Fleisher, important researchers in the field, tell a story of poets and story tellers that continued the huge Andalusian literary tradition. The book describes very well known poets as well as tens of forgotten less known ones.

This collection of essays is meant to introduce the Christian Kabbalah and its evolution. One of the main interests of this book is the analysis of Latin texts translations written by Flavius Mitridates of the Kabbalah. Wirszubski found that Mitridates divided the texts into two currents: Christianity and sorcery. He also found that Pico Dela Mirendulas writings about the Christian Kabbalah were very much influenced by the Mitridates translations and full of misunderstandings.

Malcolm Hay, a Scottish Catholic, witnessed the hatred against the Jews and decided to look for the root of anti-semitism within Christianity. The Catholic author chronicles the appalling and brutal experiences of Jews through the centuries at the hand of professing Christians. Then in a startling and shocking manner directly compares them to their experiences at the hand of the Nazis, and then the Germans, the French and the British in the 20th century. He of course does not equate the first party with the last three, but he spares none from sifting criticism.