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Toledot Yeshu as a framework of identity resistance. The Portuguese case: text and context (sixteenth–seventeenth centuries)

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This essay focuses on extracts from Toledot Yeshu (Stories of Jesus) revealed in the trials of the Portuguese Inquisition from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Considering explicit and longer versions, as well as allusions that seem to point to the Jewish story of Jesus or other texts opposing Christianity, this paper aims to understand why they were used, and in what context, and explain their utilization across time. Additionally, it also seeks to highlight how extracts from Toledot Yeshu were used in speeches of identity defense that were part of the cultural heritage of Jews in the Iberian Peninsula on the eve of the general expulsions in the late fifteenth century.
Este artigo tem como objectivo analisar excertos das Toledot Yeshu (Histórias de Jesus) revelados nos processos da Inquisição portuguesa dos séculos XVI e XVII. Considerando versões explícitas e mais longas, bem como alusões que parecem apontar para uma história judaica de Jesus ou outros textos de oposição ao Cristianismo, este artigo visa entender os motivos do seu uso, e em que contexto, e explicar sua “utilização” ao longo do tempo. Adicionalmente, também pretende realçar como trechos das Toledot Yeshu foram utilizados em discursos de defesa identitária, que faziam parte do património cultural dos judeus na Península Ibérica nas vésperas das expulsões gerais no final do século XV.

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Toledot Yeshu Conversos Conversos Jews Identity Inquisição portuguesa Judeus Identidade

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Tavim, José Alberto R. Silva. “Toledot Yeshu as a Framework of Identity Resistance.” Hamsa: Journal of Judaic and Islamic Studies [online] 9 (2023). https://doi.org/10.4000/hamsa.4209.

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