Language:
English
Year of publication:
2007
Titel der Quelle:
The Bible in Arab Christianity
Angaben zur Quelle:
(2007) 49-68
Keywords:
Doctrina Jacobi nuper baptizati
;
Christianity and antisemitism History To 1500
;
Islam Relations Middle Ages, 500-1500
;
Judaism
Abstract:
Examines four Greek anti-Jewish polemical texts written around the time of the Arab conquest (630-700), probably by Chalcedonian Christians from Syria. The “Doctrina Jacobi” and the “Trophies of Damascus” purport to record dialogues between Christians and Jews; the “Disputatio Anastasii adversus Judaeos” and parts of “Quaestiones ad Antiochum ducem” of pseudo-Athanasius are collections of arguments against the Jews that would have served as preparatory tools for such dialogues. These texts contain indirect references to the Arabs and their religion in the form of arguments ostensibly directed against the Jews. They reflect the troubles of the previous generation, in which Jews and Judaism had played a central role, but also a new Christian and Jewish awareness of the third party that had introduced itself into their mutual dispute. Analyzes four areas of arguments present in the texts that implicitly refer to the Arabs.
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