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...
| Nebentitel: | "The Gospels in Medieval Communities and Daily Life, Part 1, Written and Spoken Word" |
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| Medienart: | Elektronisch Aufsatz |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Il Mulino
2022
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Quaderni di storia religiosa medievale
Jahr: 2022, Band: 25, Heft: 2, Seiten: 263-287 |
| RelBib Classification: | BH Judentum CC Christentum und nichtchristliche Religionen; interreligiöse Beziehungen KAB Kirchengeschichte 30-500; Frühchristentum KAE Kirchengeschichte 900-1300; Hochmittelalter NBJ Mariologie |
| weitere Schlagwörter: | B
Miracles
B Anti-judaism B Typology B Medieval Spain/Iberia B Arabic Infancy Gospel |
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| Zusammenfassung: | 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 oven, is influenced by a legend from the Arabic Infancy Gospel, first in early Latin sources for the miracle, and even more so in medieval Iberian retellings. Finally, it takes into consideration how this anti-Jewish story relates to a 15th-century tale, attributed to Jaume Roig, in which the villain is recast as a Moor and earlier typologies and evangelizing messages have no place, in a retelling that anticipates a more racist notion of identity. |
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| ISSN: | 2785-1311 |
| Enthält: | Enthalten in: Quaderni di storia religiosa medievale
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.32052/106689 |