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Revealing the Secrets of the Jews Johannes Pfefferkorn and Christian Writings about Jewish Life and Literature in Early Modern Europe 1st Edition by Jonathan Adams,Cordelia Heß ISBN 3110522543 9783110522549

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Author(s): Jonathan Adams; Cordelia Heß
ISBN(s): 9783110522549, 3110522543
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Year: 2017
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Author: Jonathan Adams; Cordelia Heß

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.

Table of contents:

I Life and campaigns

1. Jewish Life and Books under Scrutiny: Ethnography, Polemics, and Converts
2. Johannes Pfefferkorn and Imperial Politics
3. In Search of the Historical Pfefferkorn: The Missionary to the Jews, 1507–1508
4. Johannes Pfefferkorn and the Dual Form of the Confiscation Campaign

II Books and dissemination
5. Pfefferkorn’s Books or the Most Rational Man in the World
6. Synagoga Veritas? Johannes Pfefferkorn and his Synagogue Descriptions in the buchlijn der iuden beicht
7. Jew-Hatred Sells? Anti-Jewish Print Production in the German Dialects
8. “Thus shall Christian people know to punish them”: Translating Pfefferkorn into Danish

III Converts, ethnography, and polemics
9. Patronage, Representation, and Conversion: Victor von Carben (1423–1515) and his Social Networks
10. Luther’s Chief Witness: Anthonius Margaritha’s Der gantz Jüdisch glaub (1530/1531)
11. The Reception History of Ethnographic Literature about the Jews
12. From Convert to Convert: Two Opposed Trends in Late Medieval and Early Modern Anti-Jewish Polemic
13. Revealing the Absurdity of Jewish Hopes: From Polemical Ethnography to Basnage’s L’Histoire des Juifs
14. Tela Ignea Satanae: Christian Scholars and the Editing of Hebrew Polemical Literature
15. Gratias post mensam in diebus festiuis cum cantico ה ע ב ר ײ ם: A New Look at an Early Sixteenth-Century Tzur Mishelo

Works Attributed to Johannes Pfefferkorn
Bibliography
Indices

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