Language:
Hebrew
Year of publication:
1992
Titel der Quelle:
קתדרה
Angaben zur Quelle:
63 (תשנב) 31-51
Keywords:
Christianity History
;
Jerusalem (Israel) History Middle Ages, 500-1500
Abstract:
Compares two 10th-century sources heretofore thought by historians to be highly doubtful or fictitious. The first is a synopsis of a letter sent by the Patriarch of Jerusalem, Athanasius I, to King Heinrich I of Germany and read at the Erfurt Synod in 932; the second is a letter to the same king sent by the Governor of Venice. Both relate that a debate arose between Jews and Christians in Jerusalem, that the Jews bribed the Muslim rulers to support their side, that Christ appeared in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, and the Jews converted to Christianity. Both recommend that the Jews in Christian lands be forced to convert. The patriarch's letter, which went through Constantinople and Rome, in fact aroused a new missionary zeal; the Byzantine Emperor Romanus Lecapenus decreed that the Jews must convert, while missionary activities increased in Italy and Germany between 932-937. Contends that there is no reason to question the authenticity of these sources, particularly as religious disputes were common in 10th-century Jerusalem - only the extent of Jewish conversion is doubtful and was probably exaggerated by Christian sources.
URL:
קישור לטקסט מלא (תיתכן הגבלה לבעלי מנוי בלבד)
URL:
אתר את הפרסום בקטלוג המאוחד של ספריות ישראל
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