A new study of Jewish law in the medieval Muslim world argues that he did.

When Rashbam talked Torah with monks.

Swords, dragons, and burning talmuds.

The Ḥasidey Ashkenaz and God’s wonders.

A 14th-century rabbinic debate on the purpose of the legal system.

The medieval church helped science more than it repressed it.

The Günzburg collection.

Books were burned, but Judaism went unextinguished.

Including a liturgy almost identical to that used today.

Jewishness was the “hand inside the puppet” of Christian Europe.

The book burning in 13th-century Paris.

And perhaps by love, too.

“The man who wrote that book died many years ago.”