@article{809051,
      author = {Manetti, Giannozzo, and Baldassarri, Stefano Ugo, and  Pagliara, Daniela, and Marsh, David, and Manetti,  Giannozzo, and Manetti, Giannozzo,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/809051},
      title = {Against the Jews and the Gentiles /},
      abstract = {Manetti's Latin treatise Adversus Iudaeos et Gentes  (Against the Jews and Gentiles) offers a polemical defense  of the Christian religion. This volume, which includes the  first four books, surveys human history from the Creation  to the life, teaching, and resurrection of Christ. Book I  begins with the creation and fall of man in the Biblical  account. There follows a long digression adversus gentes  (the Gentiles, i.e., pagans), which reviews central points  of ancient Greek and Roman philosophy and religion, and  censures the ancients for their senseless doctrines and  bloody rites. Manetti then returns to the Jews, whose  beliefs and practices are praised from Abraham to Moses.  During their centuries of "true" piety, Manetti calls the  chosen people "Hebrews." But from the time of the Exodus  onwards, he censures them as "Jews" because they observe  the absurd and cruel practices of Pentateuchal legislation,  which he views as analogous to pagan rites. Manetti  stresses several themes in Jewish history: the early  development of the concept of righteousness, the Exodus,  the Mosaic Law and its inadequacy--thus providing a  "preparation for the Gospel" in Eusebius' sense. The next  three books provide a synoptic biography of Jesus in three  stages. Book II describes the life of Christ up to the  raising of Lazarus; Book III relates his teaching, and Book  IV offers an account of Christ's passion, death, and  resurrection.--},
      recid = {809051},
      pages = {volumes ;},
}