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Contact and Transmission, vol. 6
The Controversy Surrounding the Talmud
Texts from the Parisian Dossier (1238–1248)
Ulisse Cecini, Óscar de la Cruz Palma, Alexander Fidora, Görge Hasselhoff (eds)
- Pages: approx. 250 p.
- Size:156 x 234 mm
- Language(s):English, Latin
- Publication Year:2026
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This volume on the trial against the Talmud gathers together critical editions of seven texts that are part of the Latin Talmud dossier that was prepared in mid-thirteenth-century Paris.
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Ulisse Cecini is Ramón y Cajal postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Ancient and Medieval Studies of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. He is co-PI of the research project ‘The Polemic against the Talmud in Latin Europe between 1240 and 1415’, funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (PID2024-155482NB-I00/AEI).
Óscar de la Cruz Palma is Professor of Latin Philology in the Department of Ancient and Medieval Studies of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and member of the research project ‘The Polemic against the Talmud in Latin Europe between 1240 and 1415’ (PID2024-155482NB-I00/AEI).
Alexander Fidora is ICREA Research Professor in the Department of Ancient and Medieval Studies of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. He is co-PI of the research project ‘The Polemic against the Talmud in Latin Europe between 1240 and 1415’ (PID2024-155482NB-I00/AEI).
Görge K. Hasselhoff is Professor of Protestant Theology at the Technical University of Dortmund and member of the research project ‘The Polemic against the Talmud in Latin Europe between 1240 and 1415’ (PID2024-155482NB-I00/AEI).
Summary
In 1238/39, a Jewish convert named Nicholas Donin submitted to Pope Gregory IX a list of 35 articles against the Talmud. The immediate result was the inquisitorial process against the Talmud which took place in 1240 in Paris under King Louis IX, leading to the burning of the Talmud in 1241/42. Although the Talmud went up in flames in Paris, it was not the end of the story, as the Jews approached Gregory’s successor, Pope Innocent IV, to get the ruling against the Talmud revoked.
These events constitute the context of the very first translation into Latin of approximately 2,000 passages from the Babylonian Talmud known as the ‘Extractiones de Talmud’ (ca. 1245), edited in Corpus Christianorum, Continuatio Mediaevalis 291 and 291A. The present volume gathers together critical editions of seven texts which are contained together with the ‘Extractiones’ in the manuscripts that make up the Latin Talmud dossier, namely Latin fragments taken from a book of liturgical hymns called in Hebrew ‘Sefer qerovot’, Nicholas Donin’s thirty-five articles against the Talmud, further Talmudic passages translated by Nicholas Donin, and translations of glosses to the Old Testament written by Rashi. It also includes the depositions of the rabbis during the trial of 1240, Odo of Châteauroux’s letter to Innocent IV, as well as the final condemnation of the Talmud in 1248.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Anthologia de Talmud, edited by Ulisse Cecini and Óscar de la Cruz
De glossis Salomonis Trecensis, edited by Görge K. Hasselhoff
Depositiones magistri Vivo et magistri Iudas, edited by Alexander Fidora
Litterae super condemnatione Talmud, edited by Isaac Lampurlanés Farré
Sententia definitiva, edited by Isaac Lampurlanés Farré
The Latin Talmud Dossier: An Introduction
- The Historical Background
- The Latin Talmud Dossier
- The Texts of the Dossier
- The Manuscript Tradition
- Editorial Criteria and Mise en Page
- Abbreviations
- Sigla
, edited by Görge K. Hasselhoff
Bibliography
Index of Holy Scriptures
