The Marrakesh dialogues
Subtitle: a gospel critique and Jewish apology from the Spanish renaissance
By: by Carsten L. Wilke
Series: Studies in Jewish history and culture -- volume 45
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 564
ISBN-13: 9789004203457; 9789004274020
Subjects: Christianity; Controversial literature; Judaism; Apologetic works; Religious disputations; Spanish literature; History and criticism
Description: "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, Estêvão 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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 497-531) and index.