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The Judensau from Wittenberg, 1596. Vom Schem Hamphoras, full title: Vom Schem Hamphoras und vom Geschlecht Christi (Of the Unknowable Name and the Generations of Christ), was a book written by German Reformation leader Martin Luther in 1543, in which he equated Jews with the Devil and described them in vile language.
From the 9th through the 20th centuries, the Toledot Yeshu has inflamed Christian hostility towards Jews. [6] [35]In 1405, the Toledot was banned by Church authorities. [36] A book under this title was strongly condemned by Francesc Eiximenis (d. 1409) in his Vita Christi, [37] but in 1614 it was largely reprinted by a Jewish convert to Christianity, Samuel Friedrich Brenz, in Nuremberg, as ...
Luther's major works on the Jews were his 60,000-word treatise Von den Juden und Ihren Lügen (On the Jews and Their Lies), and Vom Schem Hamphoras und vom Geschlecht Christi (On the Holy Name and the Lineage of Christ), both published in 1543, three years before his death. [226]
The German text was later published by Johann Scheible in his Das Kloster, (Stuttgart and Leipzig, 1846. 12 vols. Vol. 3), and later included in his edition of the so-called Das sechste und siebente Buch Mosis, Achtente, sehr vermehrte Auflage, New York: Wm. Radde, 1865.
A Judensau (German for "Jews' sow") [1] [2] [3] is a folk art [4] image of Jews in obscene contact with a large sow (female pig), which in Judaism is an unclean animal.These first appeared in the 13th century in Germany [1] and some other European countries, and remained popular for over 600 years.
Martin Luther – Vom Schem Hamphoras [2] Fernán Pérez de Oliva, completed by Francisco Cervantes de Salazar – Dialogo de la dignidad del hombre; Andreas Vesalius – De humani corporis fabrica libri septem (On the Fabric of the Human Body, in Seven Books) Benefizio della Morte di Cristo ("The Benefit of Christ's Death", attributed to Aonio ...
In addition to the Shem haMephorash, b.Qiddushin 72a describes a 12-letter name and a 42-letter name. [2] The medievals debate whether the 12-letter name is a mundane euphemism, [4] unknown, [5] YHVH-EHYH-ADNY (יהוה אהיה אדני), [6] or YHVH-YHVH-YHVH (יהוה יהוה יהוה). [7]
Martin Luther (1483–1546) was a German professor of theology, priest, and seminal leader of the Reformation.His positions on Judaism continue to be controversial. These changed dramatically from his early career, where he showed concern for the plight of European Jews, to his later years, when embittered by his failure to convert them to Christianity, he became outspokenly antisemitic in his ...