"Das es dasselb puch sey": The Book as Protagonist in the Ceremony of the Jewry-oath

This article focuses on the requisite sacred objects utilized in the ceremony of the Jewry-oath in Christian Europe. The objects, upon which Jewry-oaths were taken, were crucial for the oaths' validity, but their nature and materiality remained invisible in the relevant primary sources. On the...

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Published in:European journal of jewish studies
Main Author: Steimann, Ilona (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill [2019]
In: European journal of jewish studies
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Europe / Jews / Oath / Book / Sacred object / Bible. Pentateuch, Bible. Pentateuch
RelBib Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
AG Religious life; material religion
BH Judaism
CC Christianity and Non-Christian religion; Inter-religious relations
Further subjects:B Torah scroll
B Jewry-oath
B Nuremberg
B Pentateuch
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Summary:This article focuses on the requisite sacred objects utilized in the ceremony of the Jewry-oath in Christian Europe. The objects, upon which Jewry-oaths were taken, were crucial for the oaths' validity, but their nature and materiality remained invisible in the relevant primary sources. On the basis of the only extant example of such an object, a Hebrew Pentateuch that survived together with a recently-discovered fifteenth-century Nuremberg Jewry-oath, the article addresses Jewish and Christian conceptions of the sacredness of material entities, and elucidates how these conceptions impinged upon the role of the objects in the oath-taking ceremony.
ISSN:1872-471X
Contains:Enthalten in: European journal of jewish studies
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/1872471X-11311055