The “Tale of the Bellowing Ox”: Between Rabbinic Judaism and Combative Christianity

Authors

  • Amparo Alba Cecilia Universidad Complutense de Madrid
  • Carlos Sainz de la Maza Universidad Complutense de Madrid

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37536/RPM.2015.29.0.53246

Keywords:

Rabbinic Literature, Tales, Anti-Jewish Polemics, Barcelona, Tortosa, Najmánides, Jerónimo de Santa Fe

Abstract

In the late Middle Ages, converted Jews enrolled into the aggressively missionary ranks of Christianity. As a result, a signi cant part of the narrative material that had been previously dispersed in the Rabbinical Haggadah for didactic and religious purposes was used by these new Christians in order to argue against Judaism on the basis of its own literary and doctrinal tradition. One of the most common stories used in discussions on the Messiah is the «Tale of the Bellowing Ox» (our name). This paper traces the path of the tale in various oral and written testimonies within the Peninsular anti-Jewish controversy. 

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Alba Cecilia, A. and Sainz de la Maza, C. (2015) “The ‘Tale of the Bellowing Ox’: Between Rabbinic Judaism and Combative Christianity”, Revista de poética medieval, 29, pp. 19–53. doi: 10.37536/RPM.2015.29.0.53246.

Issue

Vol. 29 (2015): El cuento medieval: cruce de culturas

Section

Monographic papers

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