Author

Publication

2014 - Brill, Leiden, Netherlands

Language

English

Word Count

141,000 words, Guess

Page Count

564 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139789004203457
  • ISBN-139789004274020
  • ISBN-109004203451
  • ISBN-109004274022
  • Library of Congress Control Number2014009770
and 3 more

Classifications

  • DDC296.3/5
  • LCCBM590 .W45 2014
  • LCCBM590.W45 2014

Description

"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"--

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