This volume forms a handbook to the history of Jewish-Christian controversy, from Christian origins to the eighteenth century. It seeks to introduce both Christian and Jewish apologetic and polemic. Substantial chapters deal with the ancient world, including the Byzantine empire, and with the mediaeval and early modern periods. The still relatively inaccessible literature of mediaeval and later Jewish polemic is catalogued and discussed.The unpublished original work by Samuel Krauss has been edited, revised and updated. The supplementary material which is incorporated throughout introduces newer work and areas of study, with special attention to bibliography."one can heartily recommend this book to specialist and generalist alike ... Historians of the Jewish-Christian debate would do well to keep it within close reach of their desks and to emphasize its importance to their students."Jeremy Cohen in The Jewish Quarterly Review (1999), pages 409-410