The Marrakesh dialogues: a Gospel critique and Jewish apology from the Spanish Renaissance
"In sixteenth-century Marrakesh, a Flemish merchant converts to Judaism and takes his Catholic brother on a subversive reading of the Gospels and an exploration of the Jewish faith. Their vivid Spanish dialogue, composed by an anonym in 1583, has until now escaped scholarly attention in spite o...
| Subtitles: | Diálogos de dos hermanos |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English Spanish |
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| WorldCat: | WorldCat |
| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
| Published: |
Leiden [u.a.]
Brill
2014
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| In: |
Studies in Jewish history and culture (45)
Year: 2014 |
| Series/Journal: | Studies in Jewish history and culture
45 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Marrakesch
/ Jews
/ Christianity
/ Polemics
/ History 1600-1700
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| Further subjects: | B
Judaism Apologetic works
B Religious disputations B Spanish Literature Classical period, 1500-1700 History and criticism B Jews B Christianity Controversial literature B History 1600-1700 B Marrakesch B Christianity B Polemics B Thesis B Dias, Estêvão (1545-) |
| Summary: | "In sixteenth-century Marrakesh, a Flemish merchant converts to Judaism and takes his Catholic brother on a subversive reading of the Gospels and an exploration of the Jewish faith. Their vivid Spanish dialogue, composed by an anonym in 1583, has until now escaped scholarly attention in spite of its success in anti-Christian clandestine literature until the Enlightenment. Based on all nine available manuscripts, this critical edition rediscovers a pioneering work of Jewish self-expression in European languages. The introductory study identifies the author, Estêvão Dias, locates him in insurgent Antwerp at the beginning of the Western Sephardi diaspora, and describes his hybrid culture shaped by the Iberian Renaissance, Portuguese crypto-Judaism, Mediterranean Jewish learning, Protestant theology, and European diplomacy in Africa"-- |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index. - Introd. eng., critical ed. in span |
| ISBN: | 9004274022 |