Description: "Cohen studies the role of the Jews in Christian expectations for the end of days, highlighting the complexities of Christian ambivalence regarding the Jews from the Paul's Epistle to the Romans through late antiquity and the across the Middle Ages to early modern Puritanism"--
Review Quotes:
Readers familiar with Cohen's previous scholarship will expect that the author's careful reading of primary sources from the late antique through early modern past will not only enhance our understanding of earlier eras but will also inform how we understand ourselves in our own present day, and they will not be disappointed. By calling attention to the many roles and faces of eschatological Jews in the construction of Christian as well as Western self-consciousness, Cohen has begun an important conversation.
-- "Journal of Religion"