RT Article
T1 Paulus Albarus of Muslim Cordova
JF Church history
VO 22
IS 2
SP 99
OP 112
A1 Cabaniss, Allen 1911-1997
LA English
PB Cambridge University Press
YR 1953
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1647211883
AB In the year of the Incarnation 839, there occurred an event which alarmed the inhabitants of Frankland: a royal chaplain named Bodo, nobly born and a deacon in Holy Orders, under singularly dramatic circumstances abandoned the Christian faith for Judaism, changed his name to Eleazar, took a Jewish wife, and went to live in Saracenic Spain. The incident is remarkable for three reasons. First, it shows the vitality of Jewish proselytism in the ninth-century Western world. Secondly, it had some effect on the relations between the Frankish state and the Spanish Muslim government.
DO 10.2307/3161439