A Historian in Exile : : Solomon ibn Verga, "Shevet Yehudah," and the Jewish-Christian Encounter / / Jeremy Cohen.

Solomon ibn Verga was one of the victims of the decrees expelling the Jews from Spain and Portugal in the 1490s, and his Shevet Yehudah (The Scepter of Judah, ca. 1520) numbered among the most popular Hebrew books of the sixteenth century. Its title page lured readers and buyers with a promise to re...

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Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016]
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Anno di pubblicazione:2016
Lingua:English
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Sommario:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Religious Debate and Disputation
  • Chapter 2. Tortosa
  • Chapter 3. Talmud and Talmudists
  • Chapter 4. Anti-Jewish Libels
  • Chapter 5. Martyrs and Martyrdom
  • Chapter 6. Conversos and Conversion
  • Chapter 7. The Author and His Work: Purpose and Structure
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments