Language:
German
Year of publication:
1993
Titel der Quelle:
Bibel in jüdischer und christlicher Tradition
Angaben zur Quelle:
(1993) 479-517
Keywords:
Bernard,
;
Radulfus,
;
Cistercians
;
Church history Middle Ages, 600-1500
;
Antisemitism History Middle Ages, 500-1500
Abstract:
Argues that 12th-century Cistercian theologians, though adhering to accepted anti-Jewish doctrine, stressed the role of the Jews in salvation history; to persecute them ran counter to God's will. Jews were sinful, but less so than many Christians. Cistercians strove to establish a truer text of the Old Testament based on the Hebrew original. In 1146, when a preacher of the Second Crusade and former Cistercian monk, Radulf, stirred up the population of the Rhineland to massacre the Jews, the founder of the order, Bernard of Clairvaux, condemned him for doing the work of the devil and made him return to the monastery; the massacres (except for one in Würzburg) did not take place.
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