Language:
Spanish
Year of publication:
2009
Titel der Quelle:
Helmántica; revista de filología clásica y hebrea
Angaben zur Quelle:
181 (2009) 177-203
Keywords:
Jews
;
Judaism Relations
;
Christianity
;
Christianity and other religions Judaism
;
Jews History Middle Ages, 500-1500
;
Crypto-Jews
;
Tortosa Disputation, Tortosa, Spain, 1413-1414
;
Christianity and antisemitism History To 1500
Abstract:
Discusses the writings of the most important Christian polemicists against Jews in medieval Spain. Already in the early Middle Ages, there were Christian apologists in Spain who directed attacks against Judaism, such as Idelfonso de Toledo, Julián de Toledo, Isidoro de Sevilla, and Martín de León. Later on, many "contra Judaeos" works were written by Conversos or by their descendants, who were well acquainted with the Torah and the Talmud, such as Pedro Alfonso, Ramón Llull, Ramón de Penyafort, and Abner de Burgos. In 1413-14 there was a famous disputation in Tortosa between Jerónimo de Santa Fe, the former rabbi Joshua Lorki and Rabbi Astruch ha-Levi on the question of the messianism of Jesus. The disputation provoked hundreds of conversions and was a turning point in the life of the Jews of Aragón. Other Christian polemicists of Converso origin who attacked the Jews were Alfonso de Espina, Alfonso de Burgos, Pablo de Santa María, and Alonso de Cartagena. During the entire 15th century, the production of these intellectuals accompanied and stimulated the increase of hostility toward the Jews and Conversos in Spanish society, a phenomenon that would end in the establishment of the Inquisition and in the expulsion of the Jews.
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