Language:
English
Year of publication:
1990
Titel der Quelle:
Jewish Quarterly Review
Angaben zur Quelle:
80,3-4 (1990) 207-220
Keywords:
Isidore,
;
Christianity and antisemitism History To 1500
;
Antisemitism History 7th century
;
Canon law History
;
Councils and synods Gothic period, 414-711
Abstract:
Discusses the extreme anti-Jewish views of Isidore of Seville (ca. 560-636), head of the Catholic Church in Visigothic Spain, as expressed in his polemical works and especially in the decisions of the Fourth Council of Toledo (633) over which he presided. The sheer number of anti-Jewish references indicates that he was obsessed by Judaism. The most important recurring themes are the inherent wickedness of the Jews, their perpetration of deicide, and the bond between the Jews and the Antichrist. These ideas appear in the decisions of the Council, which enacted ten canons (out of 75) concerning the Jews. Two are entirely original, and an important part of Isidore's program to eliminate Jews from Spain: canon 60 called for removal of Jewish children from their families so that they might be educated as Christians, and canon 65 forbids all Jews and Christians of Jewish origin to hold public office. Shows the influence of the Toledan anti-Jewish legislation in the 11th-12th-century canonical collections of Burchard of Worms, Ivo of Chartres, and Gratian.
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