Language:
English
Year of publication:
2000
Titel der Quelle:
Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte
Angaben zur Quelle:
91 (2000) 168-190
Keywords:
Münster, Sebastian,
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Christianity and antisemitism History 1500-1800
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Christianity and other religions Judaism 1500-1800
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History
Abstract:
Münster, a Protestant theologian and Hebraist from Basel, published an anti-Jewish treatise, for the first time in 1529 and then in 1539. "Messiahs of the Christians and the Jews" was written in the form of a dialogue between a Christian and a Jew on the question of the Messiah's coming and the correct understanding of the Bible. The main Jewish sources of the treatise were Jewish medieval anti-Christian works. Examination of Münster's text shows that he followed a form of anti-Jewish argumentation which had been developed in late medieval Spain. The apparent rhetorical weakness of "Messiahs" puts forward the question of the goal of this text. Contends that it was first of all a cogent exposition of Jewish theological arguments for Christian students of Hebrew (and hence future polemicists against Judaism); its second goal was to show the Jews the weaknesses in their interpretation of the Scriptures.
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