Politics of polemics: Marcin Czechowic on the Jews

Titel: Politics of polemics: Marcin Czechowic on the Jews / Magdalena Luszczynska
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Veröffentlicht: Berlin; Boston : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, [2018]
Umfang: X, 180 Seiten ; 23 cm
Format: Buch
Sprache: Englisch
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ISBN: 9783110583786 ; 311058378X
  • Acknowledgements
  • p. vii
  • Introduction
  • p. 1
  • Anabaptism in Poland: The Arians
  • p. 4
  • Jews, Christian Hebraism, and "Judaizers"
  • p. 6
  • The Arians and the Jews in Lublin
  • p. 10
  • Marcin Czechowic and Arian-Jewish disputations
  • p. 12
  • Odpis Jakoba Zyda
  • p. 14
  • Gadki Zydowskie
  • p. 16
  • The Arians and Czechowic in previous research
  • p. 17
  • 1
  • New Babylonian Jewry, judaisers, and Hebrew experts: Jews in Arian literature prior to Czechowic
  • p. 27
  • Grzegorz Pawel z Brzezin
  • p. 27
  • Piotr z Goniadza
  • p. 35
  • Szymon Budny
  • p. 37
  • 2
  • Gadki Zydowskie as the first Arian-Jewish polemic
  • p. 43
  • Gadki Zydowskie as a part of the Arian catechism
  • p. 43
  • Gadki Zydowskie as an anti-Jewish polemic
  • p. 45
  • Types of arguments
  • p. 46
  • Dialogue's personae: How Jewish is the anti-Jewish polemic
  • p. 50
  • Conclusion: Anti-Jewish stereotypes as a rhetorical move
  • p. 56
  • 3
  • Gadki Zydowskie versus Odpis: The ideal meets reality
  • p. 59
  • Planning the polemic
  • p. 59
  • From theory to practice
  • p. 60
  • Preparation: Handling the Jewish decorum
  • p. 60
  • First disagreement: Who is the Chosen Nation?
  • p. 64
  • Why establishing common ground is harder than expected: how to read the Scripture
  • p. 71
  • Talmud and Tradition
  • p. 74
  • The Talmud in Gadki Zydowskie: What is zakon
  • p. 74
  • The Talmud in Odpis: A traditional exegesis or sola scriptural
  • p. 77
  • Sabbath: A shadow and a trap
  • p. 83
  • Circumcision and pedobaptism
  • p. 92
  • The link between baptism and circumcision in Gadki Zydowskie
  • p. 92
  • Circumcision in Odpis
  • p. 99
  • Conclusion
  • p. 106
  • 4
  • Sources of knowledge about Jews and Judaism in Czechowic's Odpis
  • p. 109
  • The Hebrew Bible
  • p. 109
  • The Talmud and Rabbinic commentaries
  • p. 113
  • Narratives, common knowledge, and empirical observation
  • p. 122
  • Conclusion
  • p. 129
  • 5
  • Odpis as a literary portrait
  • p. 131
  • Introduction: A literary text and the narrative self
  • p. 131
  • The first self-portrait: Christian, or the value of consistency
  • p. 135
  • Conversion: Divine election and coherence of choice. Identity as consistency of actions
  • p. 135
  • What's in a name? Christian as opposed to Catholic or Lutheran
  • p. 138
  • The second self-portrait: Teacher, or Authority and leadership
  • p. 142
  • The Papist tradition and the question of authority
  • p. 142
  • The Arian alternative to corrupt tradition: The correct reading of Scripture
  • p. 145
  • The Arian alternative to Church authority: The right leadership
  • p. 147
  • Legitimation as leader's self-creation
  • p. 150
  • The third portrait: Marcin Czechowic, or the leadership of a Christian teacher
  • p. 152
  • Marcin of Odpis as the embodiment of the Christian ideal
  • p. 152
  • Consistency of beliefs
  • p. 152
  • A Christian as opposed to a Papist
  • p. 154
  • The ideal Christian scholar and teacher
  • p. 156
  • Conclusion
  • p. 161
  • Conclusions
  • p. 163
  • Bibliography
  • p. 167
  • Index
  • p. 179