Debating Truth

The Barcelona Disputation of 1263
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-0-19-022636-7
Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 254 mm x 180 mm, Gewicht: 722 g

Reihe: Graphic History Series

In the summer of 1263, Nahmanides (Rabbi Moses ben Nahman, ca 1195-1270), who was Aragon (1213-1276) to debate with a Dominican Friar named Paul about specific claims concerning the Messiah in Judaism and Christianity. Friar Paul had converted from Judaism to Christianity as an adult, so he brought with him some knowledge of rabbinic texts, which he used to challenge the faith of Jews in Provence and northern Spain. His strategy was entirely innovative. Using passages from the Talmud, a foundation of Jewish life in the diaspora claimed that Jewish leaders recognized that Jesus was the messiah. The Barcelona dispuation was an officially sanctioned opportunity for Friar Paul to perform this kind of argument. it was conducted in a public forum at the roayal palace before an audience of Jewish and Christian dignitaries The two disputants, each thoroughly convinced of the indisputable truth of his own religious faith and theological interpretations, argued for his position before a panel of judges headed by James I himself. Nina Caputo's new graphic history tells the story of the Barcelona Disputation from Nahmanides' perspective.

By combining the visual power of graphics with primary sources, contextualizing essays, historiography, and study questions, Debating Truth explores issues of the nature of truth, interfaith relations, and the complicated dynamics between Christians, Jews and Muslims in the medieval Mediterranean.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Caputo, Nina

Weitere Mitwirkende

Clarke, Liz

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Vor- und Frühgeschichte, prähistorische Archäologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Contents

- Preface

- Acknowledgements

- Part I

- Graphic history (attached separately, page numbers refer to the pages of the graphic)

- Chapter 1."Our lord king ordered me to debate Friar Paul"

- Chapter 2. "We have three types of books"

- Chapter 3. "Jesus never walked with the righteous in the Garden of Eden"

- Chapter 4. "Moses, called master, having been summoned by the lord king"

- Chapter 5. "I write this letter to you from Jerusalem "

- Part II

- The Primary Sources

- A. Nahmanides' Hebrew Disputation Account

- B. The Latin Disputation Account

- C. James I Permits Preaching in Jewish Communities

- D. James I calls for confiscation of Maimonides Sefer Shofetim

- E. James I instructs Jewish communities to attend sermons

- F. James I makes Jewish attendance at sermons voluntary

- G. Royal report of tribunal charging Nahmanides with blasphemy

- H. Letter of reprimand from Pope Clement IV to James I

- I. Letter from Nahmanides to his son Nahman

- J. Selected canons from the Fourth Lateran Council 1215

- Part III

- Context

- 1. Reconquista and the Boundaries of Christendom

- 2. King James the Conqueror (1213-1276)

- 3. The Jews of Spain

- 4. Disputation in Medieval Society and Culture

- Part IV

- Historiography

- Modern and Medieval Traces of the Barcelona Disputation

- Making this Book: Sources, Historical Narrative, and Visual Media

- Part V

- Resources for Further Research

- Questions

- Bibliography

- Glossary

- Maps and Figures

- MAPS

- 1. Jewish Communities and Settlements in the Crown of Aragon 1213- 1327

- 2. The Expansion of the Crown of Aragon, 1213-1327

- FIGURES

- 1. Nahmanides' Disputation Account

- 2. Panel showing King James I

- 3. Miniature showing King James I

- 4. Spanish stamp showing King James I

Über Autor(innen)

Nina Caputo is an Associate Professor in the Department of History. She received her B.A. and M.A. from the UCLA, and her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. Professor Caputo is a scholar of medieval Jewish history and interfaith relations in medieval Europe. She has received fellowships from the Mellon Foundation, the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Judaic Studies, and the American Philosophical Society. Her first book, Nahmanides in Medieval Catalonia: History, Community, Messianism (2007), explores the history of encounters between Jewish and Christian interpretations of history and redemption. She has also co-editied Faithful Narratives: Historians, Religion, and the Challenge of Objectivity (Cornell, 2014) with Dr. Andrea Sterk. She is currently working on a book that uses Petrus Alfonsi to explore the figure of the convert and conversion in the Christian middle ages and a collection of essays.