The Marrakesh dialogues: a Gospel critique and Jewish apology from the Spanish Renaissance

"In sixteenth-century Marrakesh, a Flemish merchant converts to Judaism and takes his Catholic brother on a subversive reading of the Gospels and an exploration of the Jewish faith. Their vivid Spanish dialogue, composed by an anonym in 1583, has until now escaped scholarly attention in spite o...

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Published in:Studies in Jewish history and culture
Subtitles:Diálogos de dos hermanos
Main Author: Wilke, Carsten 1962- (Author)
Contributors: Dias, Estêvão 1545- (Other)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
Spanish
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Published: Leiden [u.a.] Brill 2014
In: Studies in Jewish history and culture (45)
Series/Journal:Studies in Jewish history and culture 45
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Marrakesch / Jews / Christianity / Polemics / History 1600-1700
Further subjects:B Judaism Apologetic works
B Religious disputations
B Spanish Literature Classical period, 1500-1700 History and criticism
B Jews
B Christianity Controversial literature
B History 1600-1700
B Marrakesch
B Christianity
B Polemics
B Thesis
B Dias, Estêvão (1545-)
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Summary:"In sixteenth-century Marrakesh, a Flemish merchant converts to Judaism and takes his Catholic brother on a subversive reading of the Gospels and an exploration of the Jewish faith. Their vivid Spanish dialogue, composed by an anonym in 1583, has until now escaped scholarly attention in spite of its success in anti-Christian clandestine literature until the Enlightenment. Based on all nine available manuscripts, this critical edition rediscovers a pioneering work of Jewish self-expression in European languages. The introductory study identifies the author, Estêvão Dias, locates him in insurgent Antwerp at the beginning of the Western Sephardi diaspora, and describes his hybrid culture shaped by the Iberian Renaissance, Portuguese crypto-Judaism, Mediterranean Jewish learning, Protestant theology, and European diplomacy in Africa"--
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index. - Introd. eng., critical ed. in span
ISBN:9004274022