JEWISH-CHRISTIAN POLEMICS IN EARLY MODERN ITALY
Yohanan GHIRON (1646-1716): Tziyyun al-tumat ha-kever. Record of a disputation between the author and some catholic theologians. The disputation was held in the year 1675.
Manuscripts
The text of the disputation is extant in two (three?) manuscripts:
- Moscow, Russian State Library, Günzburg Collection 364 (MOS RSL 364, seventeenth-century Italian type handwriting), 122r-125v
- Moscow, Russian State Library, Günzburg Collection 476 (MOS RSL 476, seventeenth-century Italian type handwriting), 135r-141r
- According to Di Segni, a fragmentary manuscript exists in Collegio Rabbinico, Roma. Ms. 123/8. II. fol. 110v-111v.
Secondary Literature
- M.S. Ghirondi, Toledoth Gedole Yisrael u-Geone Italia (Trieste, 1853), 161.
- L. Zunz, Literaturgeschichte der synagogalen Poesie (Berlin, 1865), 444.
- R. di Segni, Catalogue of the Manuscripts of the Library of the Collegio Rabbinico, Alei Sefer (1990) [Special supplement], 112.
- S. Marcus, Encyclopaedia Judaica, 22. vols. (Jerusalem, 20072), 7:579.
- A. Salah, La République des lettres Rabbins, écrivains et médecins juifs en Italie au XVIIIe siecle (Leiden, 2007), 294-296.
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Research that enabled the preparation of this bibliography was sponsored by the Anniversary Fund of the National Bank of Austria (Jubiläumsfonds der Österreichischen Nationalbank, project number: 16099: "Jüdisch-christiliche Polemik: Akkulturation und Modernisierung")
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