The Marrakesh Dialogues ：A Gospel Critique and Jewish Apology from the Spanish Renaissance ( 1 )

Publication subTitle ：A Gospel Critique and Jewish Apology from the Spanish Renaissance

Publication series ：1

Author： Wilke   Carsten L.  

Publisher： Brill‎

Publication year： 2014

E-ISBN: 9789004274020

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9789004203457

P-ISBN(Hardback):  9789004203457

Subject： B985 Judaism (Hebrew)

Keyword： 宗教

Language： ENG

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Description

The anonymous Spanish dialogue between a Flemish proselyte to Judaism and his Catholic brother in Marrakesh is a forgotten classic of Jewish clandestine literature. This edition retrieves the 1583 text, identifies its author Estêvão Dias and follows his cross-confessional wanderings.

Chapter

Contents

List of Figures

Preface

Historical Study

Introduction

Chapter 1. Retrieving a Jewish Renaissance Classic

Portuguese Jews as Literary Pioneers

An Anti-Christian Corpus

The First Marrakesh Dialogue

The Second Marrakesh Dialogue

Previous Research

Which Date, Which Place?

Chapter 2. Three Portuguese in Marrakesh, 1581

Dom Francisco da Costa, Portuguese Ambassador

Brother Thomas of Jesus, Augustinian Hermit

Rabbi Joseph, alias Estêvão Dias, New Christian Traveler

Chapter 3. The Author’s European Background, 1545–1581

Algarve: Reading the Bible at Morocco’s Gate

Francophony: Traces of Gallicism

Zeeland: The Deep Water Harbour at Arnemuiden

Flanders: Radical Reformation in Antwerp

Turkey: Jewish Conversion and Re-education

Italy: From Tolerance to Repression

Lisbon: The Regedor’s Palace

Chapter 4. The History of the Text, 1581–1595

The Moroccan Edition of the First Dialogue, 1581

The European Edition of the First Dialogue, c. 1582

The (Antwerpian?) Complete Edition, 1583

The Venetian Revised Edition, c. 1595

Chapter 5. Invention of a Literary Genre

From Medieval Disputation to Renaissance Dialogue

Catechism and its Parody

Controversy as Discursive Labor

Masculinity as Metaphor

Conversion and the Father-Son Conflict

Christian Hypocrites and Jewish Impostors

From Opprobrium to Glory

Conclusion

Textual History and Criticism

Chapter 1. Inventory of Manuscript Sources

Direct Transmission

Indirect Transmission

Chapter 2. Analysis of the Textual Transmission

First Generation: The Archetype Ω2'

Second Generation: The Three Hyparchetypes α, β and γ

Third to Fifth Generation: Descendence of the β Hyparchetype

Stemma codicum

Chapter 3. Editorial Criteria

Tasks and Challenges

Structure of the Edition

Spelling and Morphology

Words from Foreign Languages

Critical Edition

Conspectus Siglorum

Codices

Fragments

Biblical Translations

Other Sources

Abbreviations

Argumento del primer diálogo de Obadia

Al lector

Diálogo primero

Diálogo segundo

Glosses

Alphabetical Index in Ms. B

Aleixo de Menezes on the Marrakesh Dialogues

Notes

Notes on the Common Text

Notes on the Glosses

Bibliography

Primary Sources

Secondary Literature

Index of Biblical Quotations

Alphabetical Index

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