ABSTRACT

In his Postface, Carlo Ginzburg critically comments upon the theoretical and empirical framework of this volume as well as on the most recent work arguing for a continuity of anti-Jewish thought, David Nirenberg’s book Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition from 2013. He argues that as Christianity includes the Hebrew Bible in its Holy Scriptures, Christianity is ambivalent about Judaism, and it is therefore not possible to talk of Christian anti-Judaism, much less study it as a phenomenon across time. He uses the historical example of the “ambivalent” biblical hermeneutics of Solomon ha-Levi/Pablo de Santa María (1351–1435) to argue for his view.