Tradition, Heterodoxy and Religious Culture: Judaism and Christianity in the Early Modern Period Edited by Chanita Goodblatt, Howard Kreisel This collection of essays explores the religious cultures and encounters of Judaism and Christianity in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It focuses on both intra-religious and inter-religious aspects of these cultures and encounters, un a period which saw the breakdown of religious consensus, the raise of science, the growing impact of printing, and encounters with numerous 'others'. Contributors: Golda Akhiezer: Lawrence Besserman, Ann Bener, Sanford Budick, Cedric Cohen-Skalli, Nirit Ben-Aryeh Debby, Noam Flinker, Matt Goldish, Chanita Goldblatt, Abraham Gross, Achsah Guibbory, Boaz Huss, William Kolbrener, Albert C. Labriola, Aaron Landau, Daniel J. Lasker, Arthur F. Marotti, Anne Lake Prescott, Amnon Raz-Krakozkin, Michael N. Rony, Jeanne Shami, Ellen Spolsky, Daniel M. Unger. Chanita Goldblatt lectures on English literature at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and works primarily on Christian Hebraism in Early Modern England. She has published numerous articles in this area and is currently preparing a book entitled Written With the Fingers of Man's Hand: John Donne and Christian Hebraism She is also actively involved in an interdisciplinary project in Cognitive Poetics, involving both an empirical study of poetic metaphor and an intellectual history of I. A. Richards. Her articles on these topics have appeared in Poetics Today and Style. Howard Kreisel lectures on Jewish thought at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and is the director of Goldstein-Goren International Center for Jewish Thought. He works primarily in the area of medieval Jewish philosophy. Among his books are Maimonides' Political Thought and Prophecy: The History of an Idea in Medieval Jewish Philosophy He is currently involved in the editing of medieval Jewish philosophical treatises, which has resulted to date in the publication of Ma'aseh Nissim by Nissim of Marseilles and Livyat Hen: The Work of Creation by Levy Ben Avraham.