Language:
English
Year of publication:
1994
Titel der Quelle:
Sixteenth Century Journal
Angaben zur Quelle:
25,2 (1994) 275-287
Keywords:
Margaritha, Anton,
;
Buxtorf, Johann,
;
Christianity and antisemitism History To 1500
Abstract:
Examines the two most influential Christian works on Jewish life and behavior in the early modern period - Margaritha's "Der gantz jüdisch Glaub" (1530) and Buxtorf's "Juden Schul" (1603). The two writers were Christians (Margaritha was a convert, son of Rabbi Samuel Margolis of Regensburg) who were opposed to Judaism, but Margaritha was more violent. He attacked Judaism as an unbiblical religion that posed a danger to the Christian faith, and Jewry as threatening the political and social order in the German empire. Buxtorf's main attack was against the Talmud, which he felt was irreconcilable with the teachings of the Bible. He asserted that Judaism was based upon "the lies and false, baseless commandments and fables of their rabbis and deceiving scribes". He did not view the Jews and their religion as a threat to the Christian political and religious order. Both writers used ethnography in the service of theology in order to undermine the religious validity of Judaism, but they differed in their focus and audience, reflecting changes in the political assumptions governing Jewish life within the empire.
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