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Dialogue Against the Jews (Fathers of the Church: Mediaeval Continuation) by Petrus Alfonsi, Irven M. Resnick (translator) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Petrus Alfonsi's Dialogue Against the Jews (ca. 1109) breaks new ground in the history of Christian anti-Jewish polemics. As a recent convert from Judaism, Alfonsi introduced an intimate knowledge of Jewish literature and contemporary practice absent from earlier Christian sources. This knowledge enabled him to attack for the first time the Talmud (or, more broadly, post-biblical Jewish literature) as a source of Jewish error, with arguments drawn from philosophy and theology, astronomy, medicine, and physics. Equally important, Alfonsi's Dialogue contains an extensive anti-Muslim polemic to explain not only why he abandoned Judaism but also why he rejected Islam and chose the Christian faith. For these reasons the Dialogue has been described as the most important anti-Jewish text of the Latin Middle Ages. This assessment is based not only on its innovative argumentation but also on the fact that it was one of the most popular medieval anti-Jewish polemics written. It was cited, often verbatim, by later Christian polemicists like Peter of Blois and used by Peter the Venerable. Alfonsi's Dialogue was known to Joachim of Fiore, who adapted its illustration of the myst

Who reads Dialogue Against the Jews (Fathers of the Church: Mediaeval Continuation)?

Author

Petrus Alfonsi, Irven M. Resnick (translator)

Publisher

The Catholic University of America Press

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9780813226415

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Judaism, Literary Fiction, Christian