Revealing the Secrets of the Jews

Revealing the Secrets of the Jews
Author: Jonathan Adams
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 342
Release: 2017-04-24
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3110524341

This book presents the most recent scholarship on the sixteenth-century convert Johannes Pfefferkorn and his context. Pfefferkorn is the most (in)famous of the converts from Judaism who wrote descriptions of Jewish ceremonial life and shaped both Christian ideas about Judaism and the course of anti-Jewish polemics in the early modern period. Rather than just rehearsing the better-known aspects of Pfefferkorn’s life and the controversy with Johannes Reuchlin, this volume re-evaluates the motives behind his activities and writings as well as his role and success in the context of Dominican anti-Jewish polemics and Imperial German politics. Furthermore, it discusses other converts, who similarly "revealed the secrets of the Jews", and contains detailed studies of the campaigns against the Talmud and other Jewish books as well as the diffusion of Pfefferkorn's books and other anti-Jewish writings throughout early modern Europe. Revealing the Secrets of the Jews thus presents new perspectives on Jewish-Christian relations, the study of religion and Christian Hebraism, and the history of anthropology and ethnography.

The Land of Israel in Bible, History, and Theology

The Land of Israel in Bible, History, and Theology
Author: Jacques Ruiten
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 493
Release: 2009
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004175156

This book deals with many aspects of the land of Israel. In the first part, the emphasis is on descriptions of the land in Joshua and other books of the Hebrew anf Greek Bible. In the second part, the focus shifts to the land in history and theology: reception-history of biblical texts dealing with the land, archaeology of Palestine, and theological-hermeneutical implications of taking the land traditions of the Bible seriously. The result is a rich collection of articles on one of the main themes of the Old Testament; a theme that has a fascinating, although not always unproblematic reception history.

Journal

Journal
Author: Society of Oriental Research
Publisher:
Total Pages: 418
Release: 1928
Genre: Asia
ISBN: