The Marrakesh Dialogues : A Gospel Critique and Jewish Apology from the Spanish Renaissance.

Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Preface -- Historical Study -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Retrieving a Jewish Renaissance Classic -- Portuguese Jews as Literary Pioneers -- An Anti-Christian Corpus -- The First Marrakesh Dialogue -- The Second Marrakesh Dialogue -- Previous Research -- Which Date, Which Place? -- Chapter 2. Three Portuguese in Marrakesh, 1581 -- Dom Francisco da Costa, Portuguese Ambassador -- Brother Thomas of Jesus, Augustinian Hermit -- Rabbi Joseph, alias Estêvão Dias, New Christian Traveler -- Chapter 3. The Author's European Background, 1545-1581 -- Algarve: Reading the Bible at Morocco's Gate -- Francophony: Traces of Gallicism -- Zeeland: The Deep Water Harbour at Arnemuiden -- Flanders: Radical Reformation in Antwerp -- Turkey: Jewish Conversion and Re-education -- Italy: From Tolerance to Repression -- Lisbon: The Regedor's Palace -- Chapter 4. The History of the Text, 1581-1595 -- The Moroccan Edition of the First Dialogue, 1581 -- The European Edition of the First Dialogue, c. 1582 -- The (Antwerpian?) Complete Edition, 1583 -- The Venetian Revised Edition, c. 1595 -- Chapter 5. Invention of a Literary Genre -- From Medieval Disputation to Renaissance Dialogue -- Catechism and its Parody -- Controversy as Discursive Labor -- Masculinity as Metaphor -- Conversion and the Father-Son Conflict -- Christian Hypocrites and Jewish Impostors -- From Opprobrium to Glory -- Conclusion -- Textual History and Criticism -- Chapter 1. Inventory of Manuscript Sources -- Direct Transmission -- Indirect Transmission -- Chapter 2. Analysis of the Textual Transmission -- First Generation: The Archetype Ω2' -- Second Generation: The Three Hyparchetypes α, β and γ -- Third to Fifth Generation: Descendence of the β Hyparchetype -- Stemma codicum -- Chapter 3. Editorial Criteria -- Tasks and Challenges -- Structure of the Edition.

Spelling and Morphology -- Words from Foreign Languages -- Critical Edition -- Conspectus Siglorum -- Codices -- Fragments -- Biblical Translations -- Other Sources -- Abbreviations -- Argumento del primer diálogo de Obadia -- Al lector -- Diálogo primero -- Diálogo segundo -- Glosses -- Alphabetical Index in Ms. B -- Aleixo de Menezes on the Marrakesh Dialogues -- Notes -- Notes on the Common Text -- Notes on the Glosses -- Bibliography -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Literature -- Index of Biblical Quotations -- Alphabetical Index.

The anonymous Spanish dialogue between a Flemish proselyte to Judaism and his Catholic brother in Marrakesh is a forgotten classic of Jewish clandestine literature. This edition retrieves the 1583 text, identifies its author Estêvão Dias and follows his cross-confessional wanderings.

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