Theologies of conversion to Christianity in early modern east central Europan Ju...
Theologies of conversion to Christianity in early modern east central Europan Judaism
This project endeavors to recalibrate the accepted understanding of the Jewish-Christian interchange in the early modern East-Central Europe in light of an analysis of Jewish theological elaborations of conversion to Christianity....
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This project endeavors to recalibrate the accepted understanding of the Jewish-Christian interchange in the early modern East-Central Europe in light of an analysis of Jewish theological elaborations of conversion to Christianity. From the mid-seventeenth century onwards conversion to Christianity became one of the central intellectual (and not merely practical) concerns of Judaism. By attempting to reconstruct the theological conceptualizations of conversions (and not – as did other scholars – biographies of the converts), I shall challenge the prevailing scholarly paradigm of the existence of clear and impenetrable boundaries between Judaism and Christianity. My project seeks to systematically discuss this issue on the basis of an analysis of a large amount of previously unknown primary sources, thereby shedding significant new light on the Jewish Christian relations in Central Europe in the early modern period.