Some Remarks on the Jewish Life of Jesus (Toledot Yeshu) in Early Modern Europe
The Jewish Life of Jesus (Toledot Yeshu) is perhaps one of the most infamous retellings of the gospel narrative of the pre-modern era. The present essay explores its reception and circulation of among both Jews and Christians in the period before and after the first editions of the work, by J.C. Wag...
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2021
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| description | The Jewish Life of Jesus (Toledot Yeshu) is perhaps one of the most infamous retellings of the gospel narrative of the pre-modern era. The present essay explores its reception and circulation of among both Jews and Christians in the period before and after the first editions of the work, by J.C. Wagenseil in 1681 and J.J. Huldreich in 1705. The work was an object of fascination for early modern scholars of Judaism and was regularly invoked in discussions concerned with the Talmud and other Jewish books alleged to be “blasphemous.” For Jewish scholars, it was a source of embarrassment, although both the manuscript and documentary evidence demonstrates that many Jews did view Toledot Yeshu as a culturally significant narrative, worthy of being transmitted. It is here suggested that Toledot Yeshu, with its direct and emotional cogency, combining history, humour, and polemics, was indeed recognized by early-modern Jews and crypto-Jews as a powerful story, to which they could articulate their identity. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-635282022-02-11T15:09:55Z Some Remarks on the Jewish Life of Jesus (Toledot Yeshu) in Early Modern Europe Daniel Barbu The Jewish Life of Jesus (Toledot Yeshu) is perhaps one of the most infamous retellings of the gospel narrative of the pre-modern era. The present essay explores its reception and circulation of among both Jews and Christians in the period before and after the first editions of the work, by J.C. Wagenseil in 1681 and J.J. Huldreich in 1705. The work was an object of fascination for early modern scholars of Judaism and was regularly invoked in discussions concerned with the Talmud and other Jewish books alleged to be “blasphemous.” For Jewish scholars, it was a source of embarrassment, although both the manuscript and documentary evidence demonstrates that many Jews did view Toledot Yeshu as a culturally significant narrative, worthy of being transmitted. It is here suggested that Toledot Yeshu, with its direct and emotional cogency, combining history, humour, and polemics, was indeed recognized by early-modern Jews and crypto-Jews as a powerful story, to which they could articulate their identity. 2021-02-12T10:29:06Z 2021-02-12T10:29:06Z 2020-09-03 09:49:44 2019 chapter 46994 2414-0201 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/63528 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/162 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 29-45 open access |
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