The Trial of 1240 against the Talmud

We are in a position to consult two reports regarding the trial against the Talmud that took place in Paris during the year 1240, a trial which led to the burning of several Talmudic manuscripts. One such report is in Latin, while the other is in Hebrew. The former, namely, the Depositiones or Confe...

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Autor: Fidora, Alexander|||0000-0001-5163-0369
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:España
Institución:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ddd.uab.cat:263123
Acceso en línea:https://ddd.uab.cat/record/263123
https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.3989/sefarad.022-001
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Anti-Jewish Polemic
Talmud Disputation
Burning of the Talmud
Ecclesiastical Inquiry
Critical Edition
Polémica anti-judía
Disputa del Talmud
Quema del Talmud
Interrogatorio eclesiástico
Edición crítica
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Sumario:We are in a position to consult two reports regarding the trial against the Talmud that took place in Paris during the year 1240, a trial which led to the burning of several Talmudic manuscripts. One such report is in Latin, while the other is in Hebrew. The former, namely, the Depositiones or Confessiones, presents itself as a record detailing the interrogation of two rabbis by an assortment of high-ranking ecclesiastics; the Hebrew Vikkuah, on the other hand, describes a public dispute held at the French royal court between the Jewish convert Nicholas Donin and a group of rabbis. In this article, alongside a critical edition of the Depositiones, I provide a reassessment of the relationship between the above two documents and their divergent description of events.