Israel Yuval

Israel Jacob Yuval

Israel Jacob Yuval (born October 1, 1949 in Sde Eliyahu near Bet She'an ) is professor of Jewish history and academic director of the interdisciplinary research center for Jewish studies Scholion at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem . In his work, he primarily deals with the mutual perception of Jews and Christians in late antiquity and the Middle Ages.

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Yuval takes the view that the confrontation with Christianity was the driving force behind Judaism at the time of the Midrash and Talmud . Yuval claims:

"Wherever similarities between Judaism and Christianity can be observed, it should be a question of Christian influence on Judaism and not the other way round, unless the Jewish roots of the phenomenon in question can be proven to be earlier than the Christian ones."

In his book Two Peoples in Your Body he describes how the relationship between Jews and Christians shaped their consciousness, especially in the development of their identity. The question of the relationship between the Jewish Passover and the Christian Easter festival is discussed . According to Yuval, conflict situations between Judaism and Christianity are plausible as the background to the emergence of the theology and liturgy of Easter.

Individual evidence

↑ Gundula Grebner / Johannes Fried (eds.): Culture transfer and court society in the Middle Ages: Knowledge culture at the Sicilian and Castilian court in the 13th century , Berlin 2008, p. 404.
↑ Matthias Morgenstern: Observations on the reconfiguration of the patriarchal stories in the rabbinical Midrash - The uterine birth of Rebekah - or: Why Jacob saved Abraham. In: Judaica. Contributions to the understanding of Judaism. Vol. 64 (2008), Issue 1, pp. 37-53, here p. 42; Judaica ( Memento of the original from January 17th, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . @1@ 2

↑ Israel Yuval: Two peoples in your body. Mutual perception of Jews and Christians. Göttingen 2007, p. 35.

↑ Clemens Leonhard: The Pesachhaggada as a reflection of religious conflict. In: Albert Gerhards / Stephan Wahle (eds.): Continuity and interruption. Worship and Prayer in Judaism and Christianity. Paderborn 2005, pp. 143-171.

Web links

Literature by and about Israel Yuval in the catalog of the German National Library

personal data
SURNAME	Yuval, Israel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Yuval, Israel Jacob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Israeli scholar and religious philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH	October 1, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH	Sde Eliyahu at Bet She'an , Israel

[1] Gundula Grebner / Johannes Fried (eds.): Culture transfer and court society in the Middle Ages: Knowledge culture at the Sicilian and Castilian court in the 13th century , Berlin 2008, p. 404.

[2] Matthias Morgenstern: Observations on the reconfiguration of the patriarchal stories in the rabbinical Midrash - The uterine birth of Rebekah - or: Why Jacob saved Abraham. In: Judaica. Contributions to the understanding of Judaism. Vol. 64 (2008), Issue 1, pp. 37-53, here p. 42; Judaica ( Memento of the original from January 17th, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . @1@ 2

[3] Israel Yuval: Two peoples in your body. Mutual perception of Jews and Christians. Göttingen 2007, p. 35.

[4] Clemens Leonhard: The Pesachhaggada as a reflection of religious conflict. In: Albert Gerhards / Stephan Wahle (eds.): Continuity and interruption. Worship and Prayer in Judaism and Christianity. Paderborn 2005, pp. 143-171.