Language:
Spanish
Year of publication:
2013
Titel der Quelle:
Collectanea Christiana Orientalia
Angaben zur Quelle:
10 (2013) 65-82
Keywords:
Codex Theodosianus History
;
Blood accusation History
;
Purim History
;
Christianity and antisemitism History
;
Christianity and other religions Judaism
Abstract:
Examines the Christian origins of the anti-Jewish myth of ritual murder. Contends that its most remote origin must be sought in antiquity. States that, in fact, its most incipient development can be found already at the beginning of the 5th century in the Christian historian Socrates Scholasticus' work "Historia ecclesiastica" VII, 16, who tells that around the year 415, in Inmestar (Syria), on the occasion of celebrations after the feast of Purim, the Jews, drunk with wine, tied a Christian child to a cross and murdered him. Shows that the account of this event raises some doubts about what happened. States that the story is surely false and is situated in the context of a law of the Codex Theodosianus of the year 408 (XVI, 8,18) that prohibited insulting the Cross during the celebration of this Jewish holiday.
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