Paulus Albarus of Muslim Cordova
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 w...
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Sprache: | Englisch |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
1953
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Church history
Jahr: 1953, Band: 22, Heft: 2, Seiten: 99-112 |
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Zusammenfassung: | 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. |
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ISSN: | 1755-2613 |
Enthält: | Enthalten in: Church history
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/3161439 |