The Marrakesh Dialogues

A Gospel Critique and Jewish Apology from the Spanish Renaissance
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-90-04-20345-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 45, 564 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 1017 g

Reihe: Studies in Jewish History and Culture

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, Estevao 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wilke, Carsten L

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Missionierung und Konvertierung
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien: Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften Neues Testament: Exegese, Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie Geschichte der Theologie, Einzelne Theologen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Part 1: Historical Study
Introduction
Chapter 1: Retrieving a Jewish Renaissance classic
Chapter 2: Three Portuguese in Marrakesh, 1581
Chapter 3: The author’s European Background, 1545-1581
Chapter 4: The history of the text, 1581-1595
Chapter 5: Invention of a Literary Genre
Part 2: Textual History and Criticism
Chapter 6: Inventory of Manuscript Sources
Chapter 7: Analysis of the textual transmission
Chapter 8: Editorial Criteria
Part 3:Critical Edition
Conspectus Siglorum
Common Text
Glosses
Alphabetical Index in Ms. B
Aleixo de Menezes on the Marrakesh Dialogues
Part 4: Annotations
Notes on the Common Text
Notes on the Glosses
Bibliography
List of Images

Über Autor(innen)

Carsten L.Wilke, Ph.D. (1994), is Associate Professor of Jewish Thought and Culture at Central European University Budapest. He has published on the religious history of the Jews in medieval and modern Europe.