Resumen de The Latin Talmud and its Place in Medieval Anti-Jewish Polemic
After sketching Christian attitudes towards the Talmud from the ninth century onwards, this chapter presents the Extractiones de Talmud, i.e. the Latin translation of almost two thousand passages from the Oral Torah prepared in Paris in the year 1244/45. It describes some of the challenges in editing this fundamental text, such as the fact that its manuscript tradition offers at least two versions, namely a translation that follows the sequence of the Talmudic tractates and a second one that rearranges this material according to subjects of controversy. A historical and philological analysis of these two versions suggests that the second one emulates and re-enacts Nicholas Donin’s thirty-five articles against the Talmud from the year 1238-39.
