ABSTRACT
This article analyzes images of Jews in the Admont Sermon Corpus, a twelfth-century collection of homilies composed by a collaboration of nuns and monks at the dual Benedictine monastery of Admont. It argues that the ideas about Jews presented in these texts emerge from the concerns and interests of the cloister, rather than from interaction with real Jews. Influenced in particular by the rhetoric of monastic reform common in this era, the monks and nuns who composed these homilies used images of Jews from biblical, patristic, and contemporary texts to orient their sisters and brothers hermeneutically and eschatologically. The article demonstrates these arguments through close readings of two homilies on the Exodus narrative.
