Johannes Reuchlin and the Campaign to Destroy Jewish Books
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 13 January 2011
- ISBN 9780195394214
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages370 pages
- Size 165x236x33 mm
- Weight 658 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Throughout early sixteenth century Germany, attempts were made to confiscate and destroy Jewish books, in order to end the practice of Judaism throughout the empire. An unlikely champion emerged in Johannes Reuchlin, who wrote a passionate defense of Jewish writings and legal rights in 1510. Now commonly called "Germany's first humanist," Reuchlin laid the foundation for the first Christian study of Jewish history and theology, and for Luther's nascent Reformation movement. David H. Price offers a compelling study of Reuchlin's writings and their enduring impact on Jewish-Christian relations.
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This study reconstructs the history of a significant crisis in Christian-Jewish relations: the attempt to confiscate and destroy all Jewish books in Renaissance Germany. This unprecedented effort to end the practice of Judaism throughout the empire was challenged by Jewish communities and also, in an unexpected move, by Johannes Reuchlin (1455-1522), the founder of Christian Hebrew studies. Reuchlin had revolutionized the Christian study of the Bible with his Hebrew grammar. In 1510 he published an extensive, impassioned, and successful defense of Jewish writings and Jewish legal rights against the book pogrom, later acknowledged by Josel of Rosheim, the leader of German Jewry, as a ''miracle within a miracle.''
The fury that greeted Reuchlin's defense of Judaism resulted in a protracted heresy trial that polarized Europe, ultimately fostering a receptive environment for the nascent Reformation movement. The legal and theological battle over charges that Reuchlin's opinions were "impermissibly favorable to Jews," a conflict that elicited intervention on both sides from the most powerful political and intellectual leaders throughout Renaissance Europe, formed a new context for Christian reflection on the status of Judaism.
David Price offers insight into important new Christian discourses on Judaism and anti-Semitism that emerged from the clash of Renaissance humanism with this potent anti-Jewish campaign, as well as an innovative analysis of Luther's virulent anti-Semitism in the context and aftermath of the Reuchlin Affair. His book is a valuable contribution to study of an important and complex development in European history: Christians acquiring accurate knowledge of Judaism and its history.
This scholarly, detailed and thoughtful study of The Battle of the Books, which reevaluates the primary sources, has been well worth reading. It makes a significant contribution to the history of scholarship and will be of interest to theologians, semiticists and historians of the Renaissance.
Table of Contents:
''Impermissibly Favorable to Jews?''
Humanist Origins
Humanism at Court
Discovery of Hebrew
Johannes Pfefferkorn and the Campaign against Jews
Who Saved the Jewish Books?
Inquisition
Trial at Rome and the Christian Debates
The Luther Affair
''As If the First Martyr of Hebrew Letters''
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