Preface; Prologue: The Time-Bound and the Timeless in Medieval Ashkenazic Narrative; Chapter One: The Hebrew First Crusade Narratives; Chapter Two: The Mainz Anonymous: Structure, Authorship, Dating, and Objectives; Chapter Three: The Solomon bar Simson Chronicle: The Editorial Prologue and Epilogue; Chapter Four: The Solomon bar Simson Chronicle: The Speyer-Worms-Mainz Unit; Chapter Five: The Solomon bar Simson Chronicle: The Trier and Cologne Units; Chapter Six: The Eliezer bar Nathan Chronicle; Chapter Seven: The Hebrew First Crusade Narratives: Time-Bound Objectives
Chapter Eight: The Historicity of the Hebrew NarrativesChapter Nine: The Hebrew First Crusade Narratives: The Timeless; Chapter Ten: God, Humanity, and History; Chapter Eleven: Comparative Dimensions: The 1096 Narratives and Classical Jewish Tradition; Chapter Twelve: Comparative Dimensions: The 1096 Narratives and Their Medieval Setting; Epilogue; Appendix; Abbreviations; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary
Closely focused on the Hebrew First-Crusade narratives, this text examines the three surviving accounts of the crusaders assaults on the Rhineland Jewish communities in 1096. These accounts are compared with earlier Jewish history writing and with contemporary crusade historiography
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-262) and index
