The Boy in the Oven: The Arabic Infancy Gospel and an Anti-Jewish Tale in Medieval Iberia
This study examines a 13th-century tale, as told by Gonzalo de Berceo and Alfonso X, of a Jewish father who tries to burn his son alive in an oven for having converted to Christianity. It shows how the typological significance of the Virgin Mary's intervention, when she rescues the boy from the...
Subtitles: | "The Gospels in Medieval Communities and Daily Life, Part 1, Written and Spoken Word" |
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Il Mulino
2022
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Quaderni di storia religiosa medievale
Year: 2022, Volume: 25, Issue: 2, Pages: 263-287 |
RelBib Classification: | BH Judaism CC Christianity and Non-Christian religion; Inter-religious relations KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity KAE Church history 900-1300; high Middle Ages NBJ Mariology |
Further subjects: | B
Miracles
B Anti-judaism B Typology B Arabic Infancy Gospel B Medieval Spain / Iberia |
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