Research Catalog

Title

The trial of the Talmud : Paris, 1240 / Hebrew texts translated by John Friedman ; Latin texts translated by Jean Connell Hoff ; historical essay by Robert Chazan.

Publication

Toronto : Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, c2012.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Chazan, Robert
• Hoff, Jean.
• Friedman, John, 1949-
• Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies

Description

ix, 182 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

The Trial of the Talmud that took place in Paris in 1240 has been the subject of a number of trenchant studies over the years. The present volume, with its felicitous, annotated translations of the Hebrew protocol along with a series of crucial papal letters and other church documents, places before an English-language readership for the first time a corpus of the essential primary texts that have framed the earlier scholarly discussions and analyses. The masterful overview by Robert Chazan effectively locates this disputation in its historical and literary contexts through a deft, critical synthesis of the previous studies; it also offers new insights which will undoubtedly serve to shape further discussion of this episode. This volume should be of great interest to scholars and students of Jewish history and thought, Jewish - Christian relations, and polemical literature of the middle ages. (back cover).

Series Statement

Mediaeval sources in translation ; 53

Uniform Title

Mediaeval sources in translation ; 53.

Subject

• Paris, Giovanni 1747-
• Talmud > History > Sources > Early works to 1800
• Talmud > Histoire > Sources > Ouvrages avant 1800
• To 1500
• Paris Disputation, Paris, France, 1240
• Rabbinical literature > Censorship > History > France > Paris > To 1500 > Sources > Early works to 1800
• Book burning > France > Paris > History > To 1500 > Sources > Early works to 1800
• Jews > Legal status, laws, etc. > History > France > To 1500 > Sources > Early works to 1800
• Judaism > Relations > Christianity > History > To 1500 > Sources > Early works to 1800
• Jews > France > Paris > History > To 1500 > Sources > Early works to 1800
• Judaism (Christian theology) > History of doctrines > Middle Ages, 600-1500 > Sources > Early works to 1800
• Dispute de Paris, Paris, France, 1240

Genre/Form

• Early works
• History
• Sources

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Trial, condemnation, and censorship : the Talmud in medieval Europe historical essay / Robert Chazan -- The Christian evidence -- Latin letters -- Latin accusations -- Latin confessions -- The disputation of Rabbi Yehiel of Paris -- Appendix : the dirge of Rabbi Meir of Rothenberg on the burning of the Talmuds of thirteenth-century France by King Louis IX.

ISBN

• 9780888443038
• 088844303X

OCLC

• 810526717
• SCSB-12293497

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library