Das Ihesus Christus eyn geborner Iude sey
By: Doctor Martinus Luther. Vuittemberg. M.D.xxiij
Contributors: Cranach, Lucas, 1472-1553, printer; Döring, Christian, -1533, printer
Publisher: [Lukas Cranach u. Christian Döring]
Published: 1523
Place of publication: Wittemberg
Language: ger
Number of pages: 36
Subjects: Person and offices; Christianity and other religions; Judaism; Relations; Christianity
Other titles: Das Jhesus Christus eyn geborner Jude sey; Dass Jesus Christus ein geborner Jude sei
Notes: The first printing of Luther's early treatise, "That Jesus Christ was born a Jew", in which he denies the charges made against him that he did not believe in the Virgin Birth, but rather that Jesus was a naturally born child of Joseph and Mary.  In this tract, Luther confesses that he believes that Jesus was born a Jew of the Virgin Mary.  He also hopes that his teaching will bring more Jews to convert to Christianity.  In his view, the teaching and practice of many who came before him, as well as of his opponents, was the chief cause that most Jews did not convert.  Confronted with what had been traditional teaching before him, he says, to be a true Christian one would almost have had to become a Jew, and any sincerely believing and practicing Jew would as soon have become a pig as a Christian.

Signatures: A-C⁴, D², E⁴.

Title within wood-engraved architectural border.

Initial.

Gatch, M. Library of Leander van Ess, D113

Benzing, J. Lutherbibliographie, 1530

Verzeichnis der im deutschen Sprachbereich erschienenen Drucke des 16. Jahrhunderts (VD 16), L 4313