Jewish - Christian Relations

“Come, Let Us Climb the Lord’s Mountain!” Catholics, Jews, and the Hope of Scriptural Reasoning

by Kevin L Hughes

Review of Adriano Prosperi, Il seme dell'intolleranza. Ebrei, eretici, selvaggi: Granada 1492, Laterza, Roma-Bari 2011

by Daniele Santarelli

See: http://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/view_by_stamp.php?&halsid=9ftkrlelale6ugkvtksga8a9r5&label=SHS&langue=fr&action_todo=view&id=halshs-00693974&version=2&view=short_view

1492: l’anno della scoperta dell’America che una lunga tradizione di periodizzazioni pone all’inizio dell’età moderna.... more 1492: l’anno della scoperta dell’America che una lunga tradizione di periodizzazioni pone all’inizio dell’età moderna. Gli eventi e le conseguenze di quell’anno memorabile sono al centro di questa breve ma densa sintesi/riflessione di Adriano Prosperi, divisa in tre parti, di cui la prima è significativamente intitolata “Alle origini dell’antisemitismo” ...

"What No Longer Serves Us: Resisting Ableism and Anti-Judaism in New Testament Healing Narratives"

by Julia Watts Belser

Julia Watts Belser and Melanie S. Morrison, co-authors. Published in the 'Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion' 27.2 (2011) : 153-170.

When feminists preach on the Gospel healing narratives, they often encounter a double bind. Efforts to resist the... more When feminists preach on the Gospel healing narratives, they often encounter a double bind. Efforts to resist the oppression of people with disabilities by deemphasizing literal acts of healing tend to highlight Jesus's structural critique against unjust institutions, often represented in the Gospels by the Jewish leaders. Yet that message of structural critique and social transformation can easily lead to anti-Jewish readings of the Gospel narratives. The authors model a method of interrogating a previously published sermon, alongside the practice of situating people with disabilities at "the speaking center" of Gospel narratives and exegesis. The article concludes with five homeletic tools that Christian feminist preachers might employ to better undermine both ableism and anti-Judaism

ATTITUDES TO THE SABBATH IN THREE APOSTOLIC FATHERS: DIDACHE, IGNATIUS, AND BARNABAS

by Pierluigi Lanfranchi

published in J. Tromp – H. Hollander (eds.), Jesus, Paul, and Early Christianity. Studies in Honour of H.J. de Jonge, Brill, Leiden 2008, 243-259

Entre construction liturgique et polémique anti-juive. La collection de bénédictions d’origine juive des Constitutions Apostoliques

by Pierluigi Lanfranchi

published in Ch. Batsch – M. Vârtejanu-Joubert (eds.), Manières de penser dans l’antiquité méditerranéenne et orientale. Mélanges offerts à Francis Schmidt (Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism), Brill, Leiden 2009, p.215-229

La polémique anti-chrétienne dans la littérature rabbinique à l’époque des tannaïm

by Pierluigi Lanfranchi

published in 'Tsafon' 58 (2009), 77-88

Jewish-Christianity: A New Hypothesis; Followed by a Summary of Aphrahat's 17th Demonstration (Spanish)

by Carlos Segovia

"El judeocristianismo: Una nueva hipótesis; seguido de un resumen de la Demostración 17 de Afraates (sobre la divinidad de Cristo)," Isidorianum 37 (2010) 83-108.

1. Introducción
2. Judeocristianismo sectario, judaísmo cristiano no sectario y cristianismo judaizante: apuntes... more 1. Introducción
2. Judeocristianismo sectario, judaísmo cristiano no sectario y cristianismo judaizante: apuntes para una cuádruple clarificación conceptual
3. Afraates sobre la divinidad de Cristo: resumen de los argumentos esbozados en su Demostración 17: sobre Cristo en tanto que Hijo de Dios

Наименование евреев в древнерусских антииудейских сочинениях: К истории экспрессивности этнонима жидове (=The Naming of Jews in Old Russian Anti-Judaic Texts: Considering the History of the Expressivity of Russian Ethnonym Židove)

by Alexander Grishchenko

published in 'Научные труды по иудаике. Материалы XVIII Международной ежегодной конференции по иудаике (=Proceedings of the Eighteenth Annual International Conference on Jewish Studies; ספר: Academic Series, Issue 34)', Moscow, 2011, vol. I, pp. 187–204

Contrary to the common opinion about the absence of pejorative shade in Old Russian Židove “Jews” (as said by A.A.... more Contrary to the common opinion about the absence of pejorative shade in Old Russian Židove “Jews” (as said by A.A. Gatcuk, N.A. Pereferkovich, I.Z. Berlin, V.V. Vinogradov, H. Birnbaum, A.A. Pichhadze, A. Kulik) in the anti-Judaic exegetic tractate Explanatory Paleya (according to Kolomna copy, 1406) we can observe semantic and stylistic differentiation of words Židove, Iyuděi “Jews”, Yevrěi “Hebrews”, Izdrail’ “Israel”, synove (l’udiye) Izdrail’evi “children (men) of Israel”, Izdrail’ty “Israelites”. Thus almost 70% of Židovinъ “a Jew” is used in the position of rhetorical address and the addressee is slurred over with various pejorative epithets, whereas only in 28% of contexts this word means “the Bible people as the main subject and object of Bible narrative”. The word Yevrěi means inversely just “the Bible people” in more than 80% of contexts, however the Jews contemporary of the Paleya’s author are practically not named such a way. The word Iyuděi actualizes not the ethnic, but the confessional seme, so the Iyuděi are “enemies of Christians” and “personal antagonists of Christ” in the Paleya and other Old Russian anti-Judaic texts.

In addition to the Paleya review the article concerns the Židove — Yevrěi — Iyuděi synonymic row in the discourse of The Prophecy of Solomon (13th or 14th–15th c.), Slavic John Chrysostom’s Sermon Against the Jews (in the Margaritai, 15th c.).

L’évêque chrétien devant la diversité religieuse de la cité : Chromace et Aquilée.

by Claire Sotinel

G. F. Beatrice, A. Persic eds, Chromatius of Aquileia and his age., (Instrumenta Patristica et Mediaevalia 57), Turnhout, Brepols, 2011, p. 163-176.

¿Por qué Dios no me llama? Reflexiones sobre la figura de Dios en Parsifal y en Moses und Aron.

by Antonio De Diego

published in Asensio, M.A., A. Aya. y J.J. Padial, (eds), «Pensamiento y religión en las Tres Culturas», Sevilla: Thémata, 2012. pp. 129-149 ISBN: 978-84-936406-5-1

Este capítulo explora el tema del "silencio de Dios" en dos obras escénicas básicas de la modernidad:... more Este capítulo explora el tema del "silencio de Dios" en dos obras escénicas básicas de la modernidad: "Parsifal" de Richard Wagner y "Moses und Aron" de Arnold Schönberg.

Familles, réseaux et confiance dans l'économie de l'époque moderne. Diasporas marchandes et commerce interculturel/Trading diasporas and cross-cultural trade: Family, networks and trust in the Early modern economy

by Guillaume Calafat

Published in 'Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales', 2011

Comment entretenir des relations de commerce durables avec des étrangers, différents par leurs ethnies, leurs langues... more Comment entretenir des relations de commerce durables avec des étrangers, différents par leurs ethnies, leurs langues ou leurs religions ? Comment leur faire confiance ou s’assurer de leur honnêteté malgré la distance matérielle ? L’historiographie a coutume de mettre en avant la forte cohésion ethnique des diasporas marchandes pour expliquer leur succès dans l’économie globalisée de l’époque moderne. Dans son dernier ouvrage, Francesca Trivellato remet en question cette vision essentialiste. À travers l’étude de la correspondance d’Ergas & Silvera, une société en nom collectif sépharade basée dans le port toscan de Livourne, l’historienne montre l’hétérogénéité de leurs réseaux marchands : les juifs sépharades pouvaient coopérer tout aussi bien avec des coreligionnaires qu’avec des catholiques, voire des hindous à Goa, en fonction des perspectives de gain qu’offraient les associés potentiels. Cela ne dissolvait pas pour autant les préjugés existants entre les différents groupes. L’ouvrage incite de manière convaincante à entreprendre une analyse comparée des diasporas marchandes et offre un exemple réussi d’histoire connectée.
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How did merchants build stable commercial relations with strangers, that is, with traders from other ethnic groups, who spoke different languages, and professed different religions? How did they trust each other and monitor their agents’ honesty in spite of the long distance that separated them? A common historiographic explanation points to the supposed strong ethnic cohesion of trading diasporas in order to explain their success in the global economy of the early modern period. In her recent book, Francesca Trivellato challenges this essentialist view. Through the study of the business letters of Ergas & Silvera, a general partnership based in the Tuscan port of Livorno in the first half of the eighteenth century, the author shows the heterogeneity of its trading networks: the Sephardim from Livorno could cooperate with coreligionists as well as with Catholics in Europe and Hindus in Goa, according to the incentives offered by various potential partners. This cooperation, however, did not lead to the dissolution of existing prejudices between the different groups. The book convincingly encourages scholars to compare trading diasporas and displays a successful example of a connected “global history on a small scale”.

L'institution de la coexistence. Les communautés et leurs droits à Livourne

by Guillaume Calafat

Published in David Do Paço, Mathilde Monge et Laurent Tatarenko (éd.), Des religions dans la ville. Ressorts et stratégies de coexistence dans l'Europe des XVIe-XVIIIe siècles, Rennes, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2010, p. 83-102.

This article deals with the rights of several "national" and religious communities in the Early modern... more This article deals with the rights of several "national" and religious communities in the Early modern Livorno (1590-1630). In this paper, I am interested in famous Ferdinando de' Medici charters (the so-called 'Livornine'), consular function and cross-cultural litigation (between Jews and Armenians).

Book Review: Minorias étnico-religiosas na Península Ibérica. Períodos medieval e moderno

by Gonzalo Carrasco

M. F. Lopes de BARROS y J. HINOJOSA MONTALVO (eds.), Minorias étnico-religiosas na Península Ibérica. Períodos medieval e moderno, Lisboa, Ediçoes Colibri, 2008. 456 pp.

published in 'Espacio, Tiempo y Forma. III. Historia Medieval,' 21 (2008), pp. 347-352.

Jews and Christians in the Byzantine Empire: Problems and Prospects

by Nicholas de Lange

Christian Perception of Jewish Preaching in Early Christianity?, in: Preaching in Judaism and Christianity. Encounters and Developments from Biblical Times to Modernity, hg. v. A. Deeg/W. Homolka/H.-G. Schöttler (Studia Judaica / Forschungen zur Wissenschaft des Judentums 41), Berlin/New York 2008, 49–70.

by Annette von Stockhausen

Judaismo y Cristianismo: mitos antiguos y dialogo moderno

by Nicholas de Lange

Burocracia y conversos. La Real Chancillería de Granada en los siglos XVi y XVII

by Enrique Soria Mesa

en Francisco J. Aranda Pérez (Coord.), Letrados, juristas y burócratas en la España Moderna, Cuenca, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, 2005, pp. 107-144.

Zwischen Vorurteil und Vertrauen: Die Rettung der Regensburger Juden im Jahr 1349

by Christoph Cluse

published in Gisbert Gemein (ed.), Kulturkonflikte - Kulturbegegnungen: Juden, Christen und Muslime in Geschichte und Gegenwart, Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, 2011 (Schriftenreihe der bpb 1062), pp. 362-375.

Please Don't Give Me a Valentine!

by Michelle Kassorla

I have learned, as I grow older, that what may bring comfort and solace to others may be painful to me. I have learned, as I grow older, that what may bring comfort and solace to others may be painful to me.

Insiders and outsiders: Jews, Christians and the scribe of Codex Bezae

by Philip Maertens

research project

Contemporary research on the Codex Bezae has arrived at apparently contradictory results. On the one side, there are... more Contemporary research on the Codex Bezae has arrived at apparently contradictory results. On the one side, there are those who accentuate its anti-Jewish tendency (Epp, Ehrman); on the other side, there are those who highlight its Jewish tendencies (Rius-Camps, Read-Heimerdinger). Building on our hypothesis of a Christian Jewish identity of the scribe (see our article in NTS, forthcoming), the present research seeks to offer a solution for this tension. This will be achieved by the use of social identity approach, more specifically through the theory of self-categorization.