The Hidden Jesus. The Nazarene in the Jewish Polemical Literature: The Case of the 16th-Century Text Sefer Hizzuq Emunah
The aim of this article is to retrace the figure of Jesus that was hidden under the polemical and apologetic strategy of the text known under the title Sefer Ḥizzuq Emunah (Strengthening of the Faith), composed at the end of the sixteenth century by Lithuanian Karaite scholar Isaac ben Abraham Troki...
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| description | The aim of this article is to retrace the figure of Jesus that was hidden under the polemical and apologetic strategy of the text known under the title Sefer Ḥizzuq Emunah (Strengthening of the Faith), composed at the end of the sixteenth century by Lithuanian Karaite scholar Isaac ben Abraham Troki (c. 1533–1594). Despite his belonging to a Karaite group, Isaac ben Abraham uses very often rabbinic quotations and Jewish classical commentators and this material was therefore perfectly intelligible to wider Jewish community, becoming also much more accessible to non-Jews and Marranos. Indeed, this text was translated in Spanish, Dutch, French, Portuguese and Latin before the XVII century. The Sefer Ḥizzuq Emunah was a privileged example of what the Christians knew about Jewish anti-Christian literature and was read by important European intellectuals and philosophers. This text circulated widely among European thinkers, becoming an important source of anti-Christian ideas among non-Jewish intellectuals. The influence of the Sefer Ḥizzuq Emunah demonstrates how closely the Jewish and Christian worlds interact and connect during early modern period. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-633702022-02-11T15:08:37Z The Hidden Jesus. The Nazarene in the Jewish Polemical Literature: The Case of the 16th-Century Text Sefer Hizzuq Emunah Miriam Benfatto The aim of this article is to retrace the figure of Jesus that was hidden under the polemical and apologetic strategy of the text known under the title Sefer Ḥizzuq Emunah (Strengthening of the Faith), composed at the end of the sixteenth century by Lithuanian Karaite scholar Isaac ben Abraham Troki (c. 1533–1594). Despite his belonging to a Karaite group, Isaac ben Abraham uses very often rabbinic quotations and Jewish classical commentators and this material was therefore perfectly intelligible to wider Jewish community, becoming also much more accessible to non-Jews and Marranos. Indeed, this text was translated in Spanish, Dutch, French, Portuguese and Latin before the XVII century. The Sefer Ḥizzuq Emunah was a privileged example of what the Christians knew about Jewish anti-Christian literature and was read by important European intellectuals and philosophers. This text circulated widely among European thinkers, becoming an important source of anti-Christian ideas among non-Jewish intellectuals. The influence of the Sefer Ḥizzuq Emunah demonstrates how closely the Jewish and Christian worlds interact and connect during early modern period. 2021-02-12T10:21:49Z 2021-02-12T10:21:49Z 2020-09-03 09:48:10 2019 chapter 46993 2414-0201 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/63370 eng Journal for Religion, Film and Media image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International https://www.schueren-verlag.de/programm/titel/628-understanding-jesus-in-the-early-modern-period-and-beyond-jrfm-1-2019.html https://jrfm.eu/index.php/ojs_jrfm/article/view/161 Schüren Verlag Understanding Jesus in the Early Modern Period and Beyond. Across Text and Other Media 10.25364/05.4:2019.1.1 10.25364/05.4:2019.1.1 5b80c228-3393-4862-a8e9-6c35a63484f1 8d0dfa73-086b-4518-af05-74fa3d1d76cf 13-28 open access |
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