![]() ![]() ![]() It was a footnoted polemic in historical dress. ![]() I couldn't keep reading the book, it was full of venom toward other Jews living here and now, making it both intellectually insulting and useless as a resource. Sort of like starting a fight with the biggest guy in the saloon, it is done to make a point, and Cantor is the biggest guy in the saloon.īut recently I read a book by him on Hellenistic Judaism, I don't remember the title even, just that every fifth paragraph seemed to end with some snotty remark meant to be bitterly humorous, comparing eg Alexandria's Jewish community or Greek-speaking Jews in general to Reform Jews from Long Island who lose their religion, intermarry, and adopt alien ways, thus bringing doom upon all. I recall Cantor as thorough and even-handed when it came to "Christendom." IDK anything about his quarrels with other mediaevalists most academics will find themselves in, nay, will indeed seek out such conflicts with others in their field with whom they disagree on something. Reformation most writers interested in this period are either Catholic or Protestant or have some other related agenda. I thought this book was so great because Cantor didn't have "skin in the game" and didn't foreshadow in light of the coming tsunami of the Prot. ![]()
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