Language:
English
Year of publication:
2011
Titel der Quelle:
Christlicher Norden, Muslimischer Süden
Angaben zur Quelle:
(2011) 201-213
Keywords:
Petrus Alfonsi,
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Ibn Ḥazm, ʻAlī ibn Aḥmad,
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Jews History Middle Ages, 500-1500
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Antisemitism History To 1500
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Islam
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Christianity and antisemitism History To 1500
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Anti-Jewish propaganda
Abstract:
A paper delivered at a conference held in Frankfurt am Main in June 2007. Discusses how prominent works of religious polemics written in the Iberian Peninsula in the 11th-14th centuries used rival holy scriptures to attack rival traditions. Focuses on Ibn Hazm's attacks on the Torah and Gospel, Petrus Alfonsi's assaults on the Talmud and Qur'an, and Dominican missionary strategies, as well as Jewish and Muslim responses in the 13th-14th centuries. Ibn Hazm sought to prove that Jews and Christians had altered and deformed the revelations they received from their prophets. Similarly, the first four "tituli" of Petrus Alfonsi's "Dialogus contra Iudeos" constitute an attack on Judaism based on an assault on the Talmud, as well as an aggressively anti-Jewish reading of the Torah. In the 13th century, Dominican missionaries began to study Jewish and Muslim holy texts in order to find weaknesses in them, bolster Christian truth, and convince learned Jews and Muslims to convert. The Dominican strategy was put to the test in the Disputation of Barcelona in 1263, in which they won against Nahmanides. The Dominicans then stepped up their missionary efforts and studies of Jewish texts. Nahmanides and other Jewish scholars refuted the increasingly elaborate arguments of leading Dominicans, such as Ramon Martí.
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