Sprache:
Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr:
2016
Titel der Quelle:
After Conversion
Angaben zur Quelle:
(2016) 21-65
Schlagwort(e):
Nebuchadnezzar
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Martínez, Francisco José
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Alfonso,
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Ibn Ḥazm, ʻAlī ibn Aḥmad,
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Bible Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Jews History Middle Ages, 500-1500
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Sephardim History
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Islam Relations
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Judaism
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Christianity and other religions Judaism To 1500
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History
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Christian Hebraists
Kurzfassung:
Examines the origins and purposes of myths found in Spanish historiography of the 16th-18th centuries contending that the Spaniards are descendants of Israelites who were captured by Nebuchadnezzar and who settled them in the Iberian Peninsula. Contends that the motif of the myths originated amongst Jews in 11th-century Andalusia, who claimed at first that they were descended from Jews who escaped from Eretz Israel after the destruction of the Second Temple, and later claimed that their ancestors came to Spain from Babylonia after the destruction of the First Temple. Over the centuries, Christians in Spain adopted this claim and said that they were the descendants of the Israelites who came from Babylonia. Discusses the improbable popularity of these seemingly "Judaizing" legends in the Counter-Reformation period. States that the tale of Nebuchadnezzar’s Jewish legions is a story about the way in which Iberian Jews and Christians saw themselves as allies in rescuing the Bible - first from Islam, and then from the Reformation. Deals extensively with Jewish, Muslim (especially by Ibn Hazm) and Christian exegesis or criticism of the Hebrew Bible during the late Middle Ages, written works which sought to prove who were the chosen people of God and which was the true religion.
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