Language:
English
Year of publication:
1992
Titel der Quelle:
Judaism; a Journal of Jewish Life & Thought
Angaben zur Quelle:
41,2 (1992) 148-155
Keywords:
Christianity and other religions Judaism To 1500
;
History
;
Jews History Expulsion, 1492
;
Christianity and other religions Judaism 1500-
;
History
Abstract:
Surveys traditional Jewish-Christian polemics before the expulsion from Spain. Contends that while the expulsion and its aftermath had an impact on Jewish and Christian thinkers, it did not substantially affect their arguments. States that while Isaac Abravanel's messianic works (from 1496 onwards) were intended to fight Jewish despair following the expulsion, the arguments he presents refute earlier Christian contentions. Similarly, Solomon ibn Verga's chronicle "Shevet Yehudah" presents the expulsion as one in a series of tragedies (and rehashes classical polemics). Francisco Machado's anti-Jewish treatise "Espelho de Christãos novos" (1541) criticizes insincere converts to Christianity (i.e. the forced conversion of Portuguese Jews in 1497), yet does not innovate polemical contentions.
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