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Some Remarks on Toledot Yeshu (The Jewish Life of Jesus) in Early Modern Europe

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dc.creatorBarbu, Daniel
dc.date.accessioned2023-05-17T17:11:41Z
dc.date.available2023-05-17T17:11:41Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description.abstractThe Jewish Life of Jesus (Toledot Yeshu) is perhaps one of the most infamous retellings of the gospel narrative of the pre-modern era. The present essay explores its reception and circulation of among both Jews and Christians in the period before and after the first editions of the work, by J.C. Wagenseil in 1681 and J.J. Huldreich in 1705. The work was an object of fascination for early modern scholars of Judaism and was regularly invoked in discussions concerned with the Talmud and other Jewish books alleged to be “blasphemous.” For Jewish scholars, it was a source of embarrassment, although both the manuscript and documentary evidence demonstrates that many Jews did view Toledot Yeshu as a culturally significant narrative, worthy of being transmitted. It is here suggested that Toledot Yeshu, with its direct and emotional cogency, combining history, humour, and polemics, was indeed recognized by early-modern Jews and crypto-Jews as a powerful story, to which they could articulate their identity.en
dc.identifier.doi10.25364/05.4:2019.1.3
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/19489
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.jrfm.eu/index.php/ojs_jrfm/article/view/162
dc.identifier.urihttps://mediarep.org/handle/doc/20680
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.subjectRemarksen
dc.subjectJewish Lifeen
dc.subjectJesusen
dc.subjectEarly Modernen
dc.subjectEuropeen
dc.subject.ddcddc:300
dc.subject.personToledot Yeshu
dc.titleSome Remarks on Toledot Yeshu (The Jewish Life of Jesus) in Early Modern Europeen
dc.typearticle
dc.type.statuspublishedVersion
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local.coverpage2023-05-17T19:29:44
local.identifier.firstpublishedhttps://www.jrfm.eu/index.php/ojs_jrfm/article/view/162
local.source.epage45
local.source.issue1
local.source.issueTitleUnderstanding Jesus in the Early Modern Period and Beyond. Across Text and Other Media
local.source.spage29
local.source.volume5

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