Respect for the Jews: Collected Works, Volume 4 - Softcover

Posset, Franz

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1532670907 ISBN 13: 9781532670909

Publisher: Wipf and Stock, 2019

Synopsis

Eight different historical-theological studies are assembled here under the title Respect for the Jews. They focus primarily on positive Catholic attitudes toward Jews during the turbulent years of the first half of the sixteenth century. The number of authors and texts are relatively small, but need to be brought out into the open. For the first time, a speech in praise of the language of the Jews by the early ecumenist, Georg Witzel (1501–1573), is made available in English. Other Catholic Hebraists who are featured include Johann Reuchlin (1455–1522), Matthaeus Adrianus (ca. 1470–1521), Robert Wakefield (died 1537), and Nicolaus Winmann (ca. 1500–1550). Their brilliant works are presented in front of the sinister backdrop of the vicious attacks against the Jews by the well-educated Catholic convert of Jewish descent, Johann Pfefferkorn (ca. 1469–1521), a self-appointed Catholic missionary to the Jews, and also against the background of the scandalous outbursts of the Grobian Reformer, Martin Luther (1483–1546).
Volume 4 of the author’s Collected Works fosters the idea that Jews and Christians are “study partners,” rather than antagonists—as visualized in the new statue “Synagogue and Church in Our Time” (as shown on the cover).

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About the Author

Dr. Franz Posset accepting the Davidias Prize of the Association of Croatian Writers in 2014 in Split, Croatia, for his book, Marcus Marulus and the Biblia Latina of 1489. Most recently, in 2016 he received the Koenig Prize in Biography of the American Catholic Historical Association for his book, Johann Reuchlin (1455-1522): A Theological Biography.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wipf and Stock
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1532670907
• ISBN 13: 9781532670909
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 306