Language:
French
Year of publication:
2001
Titel der Quelle:
De Sion exibit lex et verbum domini de Hierusalem
Angaben zur Quelle:
(2001) 17-41
Keywords:
Jesus Passion
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Christianity and other religions Judaism To 1500
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History
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Prayer Christianity To 1500
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History
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Christianity and other religions Judaism
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Antisemitism History To 1500
Abstract:
Examines the impact of the negative portrayal of Jews in Visigothic hagiography on anti-Jewish polemics and Jewish-Christian relationships in 7th-century Spain. Focuses on the Passions of Saint Eulalia of Merida and Saint Vincent of Avila (and his sisters Sabina and Christata), included in the "Pasionario hispánico" (edited during the second half of the 7th century), which was read as an educational part of the liturgy addressed to laymen. In both Passions the Jews, declared as an archenemy by the Church, become convinced of the Christian truth and end up converting, serving as an example to other pagans and the heretic Arians. The Passion of Vincent, where the Jew converts while being strangled by a serpent, can be viewed as a justification for the forced conversion of Jews. Concludes that the Passions fomented hatred and completed the dark picture of Jewish-Christian relations reflected in the virulently anti-Jewish royal and conciliar legislation of the period.
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