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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.
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]
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.
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 ...
Isaac ben Solomon Luria Ashkenazi (Hebrew: יִצְחָק בן שלמה לוּרְיָא אשכנזי; c. 1534 [1] – July 25, 1572 [2]), commonly known in Jewish religious circles as Ha'ari, [a] Ha'ari Hakadosh [b] or Arizal, [c] was a leading rabbi and Jewish mystic in the community of Safed in the Galilee region of Ottoman Syria, now Israel.
Semiphoras and Schemhamphorash (Semiphoras und Schemhamphoras) is the title of an occult or magic text of Jewish provenance, published in German by Andreas Luppius [] in 1686.
The Augsburg Confession (German: Augsburger Bekenntnis), also known as the Augustan Confession or the Augustana from its Latin name, Confessio Augustana, is the primary confession of faith of the Lutheran Church and one of the most important documents of the Protestant Reformation.
Confession Concerning Christ's Supper (1528) (German: Vom Abendmahl Christi, Bekenntnis) is a theological treatise written by Martin Luther affirming the Real Presence of the body and blood of Christ in the Eucharist, defining Luther's position as the sacramental union.