Language:
English
Year of publication:
2002
Titel der Quelle:
Viator; Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
33 (2002) 69-86
Keywords:
Albertus,
;
Talmud Bavli
;
Talmud Yerushalmi
;
Antisemitism History 13th century
;
Christianity and antisemitism History 13th century
Abstract:
Discusses Albert the Great (1193?-1280), the Parisian ecclesiastic (Dominican) and scholar, in the context of the turn toward intolerance in mid-12th-century Christian anti-Jewish polemics and attacks on the Talmud. Albert was involved in the commission of inquiry of 1247 which condemned the Talmud. While he was not directly involved in polemics against Judaism, his writings contain condemnations of the Talmud. His attacks on the rabbis of the Talmud and his emphasis on Jewish intentionality and guilt in the death of Jesus likely served as sources for other mendicant apologists and facilitated their shift toward a more negative view of Judaism. Albert's writings also express a number of anti-Jewish stereotypes, relating to both the character and physique of the Jews.
Note:
Appeared as "Albert the Great on the Talmud and the Jews" in "Philosemitism, Antisemitism and 'the Jews'" (2004) 132-154.
DOI:
10.1484/J.VIATOR.2.300539
URL:
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