REVIEWS: Against the Jews and the Gentiles, Books I–IV. Giannozzo Manetti,. Ed. Stefano U. Baldassarri and Daniela Pagliara. Trans. David Marsh,. The I Tatti Renaissance Library 79. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2017. xx + 488 pp. $29.95

According to his friend and biographer Vespasiano da Bisticci, Manetti meant to write a work in twenty books, to prove the superiority of the Christian religion. The four books in this volume cover the history of the world from Creation and roughly the Old Testament period—the preparation for the Gospel (book 1)—to Christ's life, his teaching, and his death and resurrection (books 2–4). When describing the life, teaching, and death of Christ, he does this from a Jewish perspective, dwelling on the Old Testament prophecies and Christ's descent from David, and on the Jews’ role in the Gospel narrative.