Revealing the Secrets of the Jews

Johannes Pfefferkorn and Christian Writings about Jewish Life and Literature in Early Modern Europe

Jonathan Adams, Cordelia Heß, Jonathan Adams, Cordelia Heß

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2017
• eBook ISBN: 9783110522563
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Jewish History
• Index: Literature

This book presents the most recent scholarship on the sixteenth-century convert Johannes Pfefferkorn and his context. Pfefferkorn is the most (in)famous of the converts from Judaism who wrote descriptions of Jewish ceremonial life and shaped both Christian ideas about Judaism and the course of anti-Jewish polemics in the early modern period.

Rather than just rehearsing the better-known aspects of Pfefferkorn's life and the controversy with Johannes Reuchlin, this volume re-evaluates the motives behind his activities and writings as well as his role and success in the context of Dominican anti-Jewish polemics and Imperial German politics. Furthermore, it discusses other converts, who similarly "revealed the secrets of the Jews", and contains detailed studies of the campaigns against the Talmud and other Jewish books as well as the diffusion of Pfefferkorn's books and other anti-Jewish writings throughout early modern Europe.

Revealing the Secrets of the Jews thus presents new perspectives on Jewish-Christian relations, the study of religion and Christian Hebraism, and the history of anthropology and ethnography.

Indices

Persons

• Abraham (Bible) 1, 2
• Adler, Israel 1, 2, 3
• Adrian VI, Pope 1
• Agobard de Lyon 1
• Albo, Joseph 1
• Albrecht, Archbishop of Brandenburg 1, 2, 3
• Albrecht, Archbishop of Mainz 1
• Alfonsi, Petrus 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
• Alfonso de Valladolid 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
• Alix, Pierre 1
• Alonso de Espina 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
• Altdorfer, Albrecht 1
• Ambrosio de Morales 1
• Amman, Caspar 1, 2, 3, 4
• Arnold van Tongeren 1, 2, 3
• Augustine of Hippo 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
• Aurogallus, Matthaeus 1
• Avenary, Hanoch 1, 2
• Bacon, Roger 1
• Baer, Yitzhak 1
• Barth, Hans 1
• Bashuysen, Heinrich Jacob van 1
• Basnage, Jacques 1
• Bauman, Zygmunt 1
• Bayle, Pierre 1
• Be’eri, Tova 1, 2
• Benedict the Scot 1
• Benedict XIII (antipope) 1, 2, 3
• Bernard of Clairvaux 1, 2
• Bernard, Jean-Frédéric 1
• Bernstein, Fritz Weigle 1
• Bibago, Abraham ben Shem Tov 1
• Bilberg, Johanne 1
• Blanca (lady in Burgos) 1
• Blendinger, Johann Heinrich 1
• Bodeker, Stefan 1
• Bodin, Jean 1
• Bomberg, Daniel 1, 2
• Bosch, Hieronymus 1
• Böschenstein, Johannes 1, 2
• Boschmann, Arnt 1
• Bottrigari, Ercole 1
• Brandis, Lukas 1, 2, 3
• Brandis, Matthaeus 1, 2
• Brom, Mordechai 1
• Brom, Yitzhak 1
• Brucks, Jakob von 1
• Burgensis See Pablo de Santa María
• Buxtorf, Johannes the Elder 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
• Buxtorf, Johannes the Younger 1
• Byse, Johann 1
• Calixtus, Georg 1
• Calovius, Abraham 1
• Carbonell, Ponç 1
• Cardoso, Isaac 1
• Carpzov, Johann Benedict 1, 2
• Carthusian Order 1
• Cavallería, Pedro de la 1
• Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor 1, 2, 3, 4
• Chilmead, Edmund 1
• Christian II, King of Denmark 1, 2
• Christian IV, King of Denmark 1
• Christiani See Pau Cristià
• Cohen, Edward 1, 2
• Cohen, Jeremy 1, 2, 3
• Cohen, Mark 1
• Constantin l’Empereur 1
• Coppus, Gregorius 1
• Crescentius, Julius Benedict 1, 2
• Denis the Carthusian 1
• Derenburg, Michael von 1
• Dinkelspühl, Nicolaus von 1
• Dominican Order 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27
• Donin, Nicholas 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
• Dorn, Hans 1
• Egidio da Viterbo 1
• Eisenmenger, Johann Andreas 1
• Engel, Joel 1
• Erasmus of Rotterdam 1, 2, 3
• Ettinger, Shmuel 1
• Fabri, Johann, Bishop of Vienna 1
• Fagius, Paul 1, 2
• Ferdinand, King of Bohemia 1, 2
• Ferrer, Vicente 1
• Ficino, Marsilio 1
• Finscher, Ludwig 1
• Forster, Johann 1
• Francis I, King of France 1, 2
• Franciscan Order 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
• Freudenthal, Max 1
• Friedlieb, Philipp Heinrich 1
• Frischmut, Johannes 1, 2
• Froben, Ambrosius 1
• Funkelstein, Amos 1
• Galatinus, Petrus 1
• Gara, Giovanni di 1
• Gaya, Louis de 1, 2
• Geiger, Ari 1
• Geiger, Ludwig 1, 2, 3, 4
• Génébrard, Gilbert 1
• Giles of Viterbo See Egidio da Viterbo
• Giustiniani, Agustino 1
• Grabois, Aryeh 1, 2
• Gratian 1, 2
• Gratius, Ortwin 1, 2
• Gregory I, Pope 1, 2
• Gregory IX, Pope 1, 2, 3, 4
• Grotius, Hugo 1
• Grundtvig, Nikolaj Frederik Severin 1
• Günther, Gregor 1
• Günzburg, Shim‛on ha-Levi 1
• Gutenstein, Heinrich von 1
• Hackspan, Theodor 1, 2, 3, 4
• Hans, King of Denmark 1
• Hartmann, Johannes 1
• Hartmann, Karl-Günther 1
• Held, Mathias 1
• Helgesen, Poul 1, 2, 3
• Hemmingsen, Niels 1
• Hieronymus, Saint See Jerome
• Hieronymus de Sancta Fide See Jerónimo de Santa Fe
• Hoogstraeten, Jakob van 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
• Hopfer, Hieronymus 1
• Hornejus, Konrad 1
• Hsia, Ronnie Po-chia 1
• Humboldt, Wilhelm von 1
• Hunt, Lynn 1
• Innocent IV, Pope 1
• Isaac (Bible) 1, 2
• Isaac ben Abraham of Troki 1
• Isidore of Seville 1
• Jacob (Bible) 1, 2
• Jacob ben Asher 1
• Jacob, Margaret 1
• Jacobus de Cessolis 1
• James I, King of Aragon 1
• Janequin, Clément 1
• Jerome “the Convert” 1
• Jerome, Saint 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
• Jerónimo de Santa Fe 1, 2, 3, 4
• Joachim, Elector of Brandenburg 1
• Joachim, Saint 1
• John I/II See Hans, King of Denmark
• Josel (Joseph) of Rosheim 1
• Joseph, Saint 1, 2
• Josephus, ...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Illustrations
• Acknowledgements
• Contributors
• A Note on Spelling and Referencing
• Introduction
• I Life and campaigns
• II Books and dissemination
• III Converts, ethnography, and polemics
• Works Attributed to Johannes Pfefferkorn
• Bibliography
• Indices