The Controversy Surrounding the Talmud
Texts from the Parisian Dossier (1238–1248)
Hardback (Published)
(September 2026)
ISBN: 9782503622484
6.14 x 9.21 inches
Price: $119.00
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.
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.
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