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Title: | The Barcelona Disputation [Review of ‘Barcelona and Beyond: The Disputation of 1263 and Its Aftermath’, by R. Chazan] |
Authors: | Berger, David Chazan, Robert |
Keywords: | Book review Naḥmanides, approximately 1195-approximately 1270. Ṿikuaḥ ha-Ramban. Christianity --Controversial literature. Judaism --Apologetic works. Barcelona Disputation, Barcelona, Spain, 1263. Judaism --Relations --Christianity. Christianity and other religions --Judaism. Jews --Spain --History. Spain --Ethnic relations. |
Issue Date: | 1995 |
Publisher: | U Pennsylvania |
Citation: | Berger, D. (1995). The Barcelona Disputation [Review of ‘Barcelona and Beyond: The Disputation of 1263 and Its Aftermath’, by R. Chazan]. AJS Review, 20(2), 379-388. |
Series/Report no.: | AJS Review;20(2) |
Abstract: | In many respects, Robert Chazan's new book on the disputation of 1263 between NaI:imanides and Friar Paul Christian is an excellent and very important contribution to the century-old historiographical debate about one of the most famous events in medieval Jewish history. The Barcelona disputation, where Friar Paul unveiled a relatively new approach appealing to talmudic sources as evidence for the truth of Christianity, was manifestly a moment of high drama, so significant and so thoroughly investigated that we might be pardoned a certain skepticism about the ability of any scholar to say something new about it. To a significant degree, Chazan has overcome this obstacle by providing an overview of the event that forces us to look at the large picture fortified with a healthy infusion of common sense. At the same time, part of the analysis seems to me to stand in tension with itself, and I am inclined to utilize some of the evidence that Chazan presents so lucidly to reach a conclusion different from his. |
Description: | Book review (Judaica) |
URI: | https://www.academia.edu/44322766/David_Berger_The_Barcelona_Disputation_Review_of_Barcelona_and_Beyond_The_Disputation_of_1263_and_Its_Aftermath_by_Robert_Chazan_AJS_Review_vol_20_no_2_1995_379_388 https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12202/9290 |
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Appears in Collections: | Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies (BRGS): Faculty Publications |
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