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The Hidden Jesus. The Nazarene in Jewish Polemical Literature: The Case of the 16th-Century Text Sefer Ḥizzuq Emunah

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dc.creatorBenfatto, Miriam
dc.date.accessioned2023-05-17T17:11:40Z
dc.date.available2023-05-17T17:11:40Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description.abstractThe aim of this article is to retrace the figure of Jesus that was hidden under the polemical and apologetic strategy of the text known under the title Sefer Ḥizzuq Emunah (Strengthening of the Faith), composed at the end of the sixteenth century by Lithuanian Karaite scholar Isaac ben Abraham Troki (c. 1533–1594). Despite his belonging to a Karaite group, Isaac ben Abraham uses very often rabbinic quotations and Jewish classical commentators and this material was therefore perfectly intelligible to wider Jewish community, becoming also much more accessible to non-Jews and Marranos. Indeed, this text was translated in Spanish, Dutch, French, Portuguese and Latin before the XVII century. The Sefer Ḥizzuq Emunah was a privileged example of what the Christians knew about Jewish anti-Christian literature and was read by important European intellectuals and philosophers. This text circulated widely among European thinkers, becoming an important source of anti-Christian ideas among non-Jewish intellectuals. The influence of the Sefer Ḥizzuq Emunah demonstrates how closely the Jewish and Christian worlds interact and connect during early modern period.en
dc.identifier.doi10.25364/05.4:2019.1.2
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/19486
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.jrfm.eu/index.php/ojs_jrfm/article/view/161
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/20677
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherSchüren
dc.publisher.placeMarburg
dc.relation.isPartOfissn:2617-3697
dc.relation.ispartofseriesJournal for Religion, Film and Media
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
dc.subjectHidden Jesusen
dc.subjectNazareneen
dc.subjectJewishen
dc.subjectPolemicalen
dc.subjectLiteratureen
dc.subjectTexten
dc.subject.ddcddc:300
dc.subject.personSefer Ḥizzuq Emunah
dc.titleThe Hidden Jesus. The Nazarene in Jewish Polemical Literature: The Case of the 16th-Century Text Sefer Ḥizzuq Emunahen
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local.coverpage2023-05-17T19:29:44
local.identifier.firstpublishedhttps://www.jrfm.eu/index.php/ojs_jrfm/article/view/161
local.source.epage28
local.source.issue1
local.source.issueTitleUnderstanding Jesus in the Early Modern Period and Beyond. Across Text and Other Media
local.source.spage13
local.source.volume5

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