Language:
English
Year of publication:
1987
Titel der Quelle:
Proceedings - American Academy for Jewish Research
Angaben zur Quelle:
54 (1987) 203-236
Keywords:
Jews
;
Judaism Relations
;
Christianity
;
Christianity and other religions Judaism
;
Judaism Relations
;
Islam
;
Islam Relations
;
Judaism
Abstract:
The attacks on the Jewish religion found in the work of the Muslim theologian Ibn Hazm of Cordoba (994-1064) were based on a considerable knowledge of Jewish sources. His charge that the Jews forged the Torah served as the source of most subsequent Muslim polemics. Ibn Hazm also attacked rabbinical and mystical literature, which he believed to be Jewish doctrine, and argued against the Jewish claim that the Torah cannot be abrogated. Misunderstanding the role of the prophet in Judaism, he tried to prove that Moses was not superior to Muhammad. Argues that many explanations by Maimonides are in fact a defense of the Jewish religion designed to rebut these charges. The latest Jewish answer to Ibn Hazm was written by the 13th century Barcelona rabbi Solomon ben Adret. In a responsum he described a polemic he held with a Christian scholar, probably Ramon Marti, who raised similar issues.
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