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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 Simple Way to Pray for Master Peter the Barber (German: Eine einfältige weise zu beten für ein guten freund, 1535) is a short book by Protestant reformer Martin Luther.
Luther's main works on the Jews were his 65,000-word treatise Von den Juden und Ihren Lügen (On the Jews and Their Lies) and Vom Schem Hamphoras und vom Geschlecht Christi (Of the Unknowable Name and the Generations of Christ) — reprinted five times within his lifetime — both written in 1543, three years before his death. [10]
In Vom Schem Hamphoras (1543), Luther comments on the Judensau sculpture at Wittenberg, echoing the antisemitism of the image and locating the Talmud in the sow's bowels: Here on our church in Wittenberg a sow is sculpted in stone. Young pigs and Jews lie suckling under her.
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 ...
A note about the real presence in Mikael Agricola Church, Helsinki.. The real presence of Christ's true body and blood in the Lord's Supper was a controversial issue at the time of Luther.
Theologia Germanica, also known as Theologia Deutsch or Teutsch, or as Der Franckforter, is a mystical treatise believed to have been written in the later 14th century [1] by an anonymous author.