The Trial of the Talmud
Subtitle: Paris, 1240
Publisher: PIMS; Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Department of Publications
Published: Dec 01, 2012
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780888443038
Description: The Trial of the Talmud that took place in Paris in 1240 has been the subject of a number of trenchant studies over the years. The present volume, with its felicitous, annotated translations of the Hebrew protocol along with a series of crucial papal letters and other church documents, places before an English-language readership for the first time a corpus of the essential primary texts that have framed the earlier scholarly discussions and analyses. The masterful overview by Robert Chazan effectively locates this disputation in its historical and literary contexts through a deft, critical synthesis of the previous studies; it also offers new insights which will undoubtedly serve to shape further discussion of this episode. This volume should be of great interest to scholars and students of Jewish history and thought, Jewish - Christian relations, and polemical literature of the middle ages. (back cover).
Notes: Source title: The Trial of the Talmud: Paris, 1240 (Mediaeval Sources in Translation)