Language:
English
Year of publication:
1988
Titel der Quelle:
Jewish History
Angaben zur Quelle:
3,1 (1988) 65-94
Keywords:
Christianity and antisemitism History To 1500
Abstract:
Examines how Christian apologetic treatises referred to Jews and Judaism in their anti-Muslim arguments in an effort to prove the reasonableness of Christian doctrines. In arguments with Muslims, the Christians claimed Jewish support for verification of the Bible text, but insisted that Jewish interpretations and ideas were fallacious, and that some Islamic ideas are reducible to the discredited Judaism. Relating to the Muslim denial of Jesus as the son of God, and of his crucifixion by the Jews, apologists attempted to single out elements of the Islamic view of Jesus that were in accord with Christian teachings and in opposition to the Jewish view. Muslim opposition to the veneration of the cross was ascribed to adverse Jewish influence. The appeal to anti-Jewish prejudices of both Christians and Muslims was apparent in discussions regarding Muhammad and the Qur'an. Apologists argued that Muhammad was misguided by the Jews, and they ascribed responsibility for the rise of Islam to a concerted Jewish attack on Christianity.
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