The Hebrew Bible In Fifteenth Century Spain

Author : Jonathan Decter,Arturo Prats
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004232495

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The Hebrew Bible in Fifteenth-Century Spain by Jonathan Decter,Arturo Prats Pdf

The Hebrew Bible in Fifteenth-Century Spain: Exegesis, Literature, Philosophy, and the Arts investigates the relationship between the Bible and the cultural production of Iberian societies between the anti-Jewish riots of 1391 and the Expulsion of 1492. During this turbulent and transformative period, the Bible intersected with virtually all aspects of late medieval Iberian culture: its languages of expression, its material and artistic production, and its intellectual output in literary, philosophical, exegetic, and polemical spheres. The articles in this cross-cultural and interdisciplinary volume present instantiations of the Hebrew Bible’s deployment in textual and visual forms on diverse subjects (messianic exegesis, polemics, converso liturgy, Bible translation, conversion narrative, etc.) and utilize a broad range of methodological approaches (from classical philology to Derridian analysis).

Author : Jonathan Decter,Arturo Prats Oliván,Arturo Prats
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004232488

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The Hebrew Bible in Fifteenth-Century Spain by Jonathan Decter,Arturo Prats Oliván,Arturo Prats Pdf

The articles of this volume present instantiations of the Hebrew Bible’s deployment in textual and visual forms by Iberian Jewish, Christian and converso exegetes, translators, philosophers, artists, and literary authors between the anti-Jewish riots of 1391 and the Expulsion of 1492.

Author : Elaine Rebecca Miller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : UVA:X004524284

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Jewish Multiglossia by Elaine Rebecca Miller Pdf

Author : Luís Urbano Afonso,Tiago Moita
Publisher : Harvey Miller
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-25
Category : Bible
ISBN : 1909400599

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Sephardic Book Art of the 15th Century by Luís Urbano Afonso,Tiago Moita Pdf

The current volume presents ten different studies dealing with the final stages of Hebrew book art production in medieval Iberia. Ranging from the Farhi Codex, copied and illuminated in the late 14th century, to the Philadelphia Bible, copied and illuminated in Lisbon in 1496, this volume discusses a wide scope of topics related with the production, consumption and circulation of medieval decorated Hebrew manuscripts. Among the issues discussed in this volume we highlight the role played by three distinct artistic languages (Mudejar, Late Gothic and Renaissance) in the shapping of 15th century Sephardic illumination, the codicological specificity of some solutions in terms of layout and the relation between the layout of these manuscripts and Hebrew incunabula, the use of geometric decoration in scientific diagrams, or the afterlife of these manuscripts in Europe and Asia following the expulsion of the Jews from Iberia.

Author : Benzion Netanyahu
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 1432 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0940322390

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The Origins of the Inquisition in Fifteenth Century Spain by Benzion Netanyahu Pdf

The Spanish Inquisition remains a fearful symbol of state terror. Its principal target was theconversos, descendants of Spanish Jews who had been forced to convert to Christianity some three generations earlier. Since thousands of them confessed to charges of practicing Judaism in secret, historians have long understood the Inquisition as an attempt to suppress the Jews of Spain. In this magisterial reexamination of the origins of the Inquisition, Netanyahu argues for a different view: that the conversos were in fact almost all genuine Christians who were persecuted for political ends. The Inquisition's attacks not only on the conversos' religious beliefs but also on their "impure blood" gave birth to an anti-Semitism based on race that would have terrible consequences for centuries to come. This book has become essential reading and an indispensable reference book for both the interested layman and the scholar of history and religion.

Author : Ana M. Gómez-Bravo
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781442647206

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Textual Agency: Writing Culture and Social Networks in Fifteenth-Century Spain by Ana M. Gómez-Bravo Pdf

Gómez-Bravo also explores how authorial and textual agency were competing forces in the midst of an era marked by the institution of the Inquisition, the advent of the absolutist state, the growth of cities, and the constitution of the Spanish nation.

Author : Norman Roth
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000348118

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The Bible and Jews in Medieval Spain by Norman Roth Pdf

The Bible and Jews in Medieval Spain examines the grammatical, exegetical, philosophical and mystical interpretations of the Bible that took place in Spain during the medieval period. The Bible was the foundation of Jewish culture in medieval Spain. Following the scientific analysis of Hebrew grammar which emerged in al-Andalus in the ninth and tenth centuries, biblical exegesis broke free of homiletic interpretation and explored the text on grammatical and contextual terms. While some of the earliest commentary was in Arabic, scholars began using Hebrew more regularly during this period. The first complete biblical commentaries in Hebrew were written by Abraham Ibn ‘Ezra, and this set the standard for the generations that followed. This book analyses the approach and unique contributions of these commentaries, moving on to those of later Christian Spain, including the Qimhi family, Nahmanides and his followers and the esoteric-mystical tradition. Major topics in the commentaries are compared and contrasted. Thus, a unified picture of the whole fabric of Hebrew commentary in medieval Spain emerges. In addition, the book describes the many Spanish Jewish biblical manuscripts that have remained and details the history of printed editions and Spanish translations (for Jews and Christians) by medieval Spanish Jews. This book will appeal to scholars and students of medieval Spain, as well as those interested in the history of religion and cultural history.

Author : Nadia Zeldes
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781498573429

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Reading Jewish History in the Renaissance by Nadia Zeldes Pdf

Using the Hebrew Book of Josippon as a prism, this study analyzes the dialogue surrounding Jewish history among Renaissance humanists. Notwithstanding its focus on the Renaissance, the author’s analysis extends to the consumption of Josippon in the High Middle Ages and into interpretations by sixteenth- and seventeenth-century humanists. With a focus on both Christian and Jewish discourse, the author examines the mythical and historical narratives that developed from Josippon.

Author : Esperanza Alfonso,Javier del Barco
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 817 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004461222

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Translating the Hebrew Bible in Medieval Iberia by Esperanza Alfonso,Javier del Barco Pdf

Translating the Hebrew Bible in Medieval Iberia provides the princeps diplomatic edition and a comprehensive study of Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Hunt. 268. The manuscript, produced in the Iberian Peninsula in the late thirteenth century, features a biblical glossary-commentary in Hebrew that includes 2,018 glosses in the vernacular and 156 in Arabic, and to date is the only manuscript of these characteristics known to have been produced in this region. Esperanza Alfonso has edited the text and presents here a study of it, examining its pedagogical function, its sources, its exegetical content, and its extraordinary value for the study of biblical translation in the Iberian Peninsula and in the Sephardic Diaspora. Javier del Barco provides a detailed linguistic study and a glossary of the corpus of vernacular glosses. For a version with a list of corrections and additions, see https://digital.csic.es/handle/10261/265401.

Author : Scott Mandelbrote,Joanna Weinberg
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004318151

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Jewish Books and their Readers by Scott Mandelbrote,Joanna Weinberg Pdf

Jewish Books and their Readers asks what constituted a ‘Jewish’ book in early modern Europe: how it was presented, disseminated, and understood within Jewish and Christian environments, and what effect this had on views of Jews and their intellectual heritage.

Author : Rosa Vidal Doval
Publisher : Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780907570264

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Misera Hispania by Rosa Vidal Doval Pdf

Fortalitium fidei is one of the central texts in the controversy surrounding the religious and social status of conversos in fifteenth-century Castile. This monograph provides a close analysis of the text itself and contextualizes this study through comparison with pro-converso texts and with reference to Alonso de Espina's career as an Observant Franciscan. After an outline of the development of the converso problem, it offers a biography of Espina and a discussion of the context of production of Fortalitium fidei. There is then a discussion of three works of theology in defence of conversos: Alonso de Cartagena's Defensorium unitatis christianae, Juan de Torquemada's Tractatus contra madianitas et ismaelitas, and Alonso de Oropesa's Lumen ad revelationem gentium. The rest of the work is detailed reading of Fortalitium fidei, with chapters on the image of the fortress, the treatment of Jews and Judaism, and of conversos. This volume addresses the extent and nature of the debate about conversos, the development of models of genealogical exclusion, and the role of Espina and his text in the ending of religious plurality in Spain.

Author : Qaṭrîn Qôǧman-Appel
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004137899

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Jewish Book Art Between Islam and Christianity by Qaṭrîn Qôǧman-Appel Pdf

This book discusses the decoration types of Sephardic illuminated Bibles in their broader historical, and social context in an era of cultural transition in Iberia and culture struggle within Spanish Jewry.

Author : Henry Kamen
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300182873

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The Spanish Inquisition by Henry Kamen Pdf

In this completely updated edition of Henry Kamen’s classic survey of the Spanish Inquisition, the author incorporates the latest research in multiple languages to offer a new—and thought-provoking—view of this fascinating period. Kamen sets the notorious Christian tribunal into the broader context of Islamic and Jewish culture in the Mediterranean, reassesses its consequences for Jewish culture, measures its impact on Spain’s intellectual life, and firmly rebuts a variety of myths and exaggerations that have distorted understandings of the Inquisition. He concludes with disturbing reflections on the impact of state security organizations in our own time.

Author : Benzion Netanyahu
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0801485681

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The Marranos of Spain by Benzion Netanyahu Pdf

Analyzes the degree of assimilation of the Spanish Conversos based on Jewish perceptions as reflected in responsa and in polemical and exegetical Jewish literature of the time (1391-1481). Rejects the present-day view that many Conversos were Judaizers, arguing that, on the contrary, most of them were at different stages of assimilation and Christianization and were even tinged with anti-Judaism. Stresses that in fact the majority of the Spanish Jewish community converted (forcibly or not), and the remaining Jews, a minority, felt uncertainty as to the Jewishness of the Conversos, considering as a crypto-Jew (or "anuss") only a Converso who respected Jewish precepts in private and who tried to leave Spain in order to return to Judaism. The fact that most Conversos did neither shows that most of them abandoned Judaism, and that the Inquisition's persecution campaign was held not on religious but on racial and political grounds, meant to destroy a successfully competing social group.

Author : Ryan Szpiech
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780823264636

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Medieval Exegesis and Religious Difference by Ryan Szpiech Pdf

Jews, Christians, and Muslims all have a common belief in the sanctity of a core holy scripture, and commentary on scripture (exegesis) was at the heart of all three traditions in the Middle Ages. At the same time, because it dealt with issues such as the nature of the canon, the limits of acceptable interpretation, and the meaning of salvation history from the perspective of faith, exegesis was elaborated in the Middle Ages along the faultlines of interconfessional disputation and polemical conflict. This collection of thirteen essays by world-renowned scholars of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam explores the nature of exegesis during the High and especially the Late Middle Ages as a discourse of cross-cultural and interreligious conflict, paying particular attention to the commentaries of scholars in the western and southern Mediterranean from Iberia and Italy to Morocco and Egypt. Unlike other comparative studies of religion, this collection is not a chronological history or an encyclopedic guide. Instead, it presents essays in four conceptual clusters (“Writing on the Borders of Islam,” “Jewish-Christian Conflict,” “The Intellectual Activity of the Dominican Order,” and “Gender”) that explore medieval exegesis as a vehicle for the expression of communal or religious identity, one that reflects shared or competing notions of sacred history and sacred text. This timely book will appeal to scholars and lay readers alike and will be essential reading for students of comparative religion, historians charting the history of religious conflict in the medieval Mediterranean, and all those interested in the intersection of Jewish, Christian, and Muslim beliefs and practices.