The Barcelona Disputation: Texts and Contexts
Scholars of Jewish history have paid consistent and devoted attention to the Barcelona Disputation of 1263. Records of this event preserve contemporary Jewish and Christian responses to the proceedings, which pitted Nahmanides, the most important exegete and teacher of the region, against a convert...
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| Medienart: | Elektronisch Aufsatz |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Sciendo, De Gruyter
[2020]
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Perichoresis
Jahr: 2020, Band: 18, Heft: 4, Seiten: 21-39 |
| RelBib Classification: | AX Interreligiöse Beziehungen BH Judentum CC Christentum und nichtchristliche Religionen; interreligiöse Beziehungen KAE Kirchengeschichte 900-1300; Hochmittelalter KBH Iberische Halbinsel |
| weitere Schlagwörter: | B
Historiography
B Barcelona Disputation B Nahmanides B Polemics |
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| Zusammenfassung: | Scholars of Jewish history have paid consistent and devoted attention to the Barcelona Disputation of 1263. Records of this event preserve contemporary Jewish and Christian responses to the proceedings, which pitted Nahmanides, the most important exegete and teacher of the region, against a convert from Judaism to Christianity, took place in the royal court before an illustrious audience. This essay traces trends in scholarly treatments of the Barcelona Disputation from the early days of the Wissenschaft des Judentums to the present. By examining challenges of veracity posed by the documentary sources as well as foundational assumptions about what the medieval authors intended to achieve with their accounts, this article provides broad overview of the historiography that has developed around the Barcelona Disputation. |
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| ISSN: | 2284-7308 |
| Enthält: | Enthalten in: Perichoresis
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2478/perc-2020-0020 |