Politics of Polemics: Marcin Czechowic on the Jews(English, Electronic book text, Luszczynska Magdalena)

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Politics of Polemics: Marcin Czechowic on the Jews(English, Electronic book text, Luszczynska Magdalena) is written by Luszczynska Magdalena and published by De Gruyter. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 3110586568 (ISBN 10) and 9783110586565 (ISBN 13).

The works of Marcin Czechowic (1536-1613), a leader of a Polish Radical Protestant sect known as the Arians, are often referred to as proof for the Jews' close contacts with Radical Christians and the tolerant character of interreligious debates in early-modern Poland. In "Politics of Polemics," Magdalena Luszczynska explores Arian-Jewish relations focusing on Czechowic's two polemics that utilise contrasting images of the Jew. The first features an invented interlocutor, a spiritually blind, tradition-bound 'hermeneutical Jew,' while the second engages in depth with Jewish texts, beliefs, and practices drawing on the Christian Hebraist perception of the Jews as potential teachers of 'sacred philology.' The works are analysed in the context of Radical Protestant theology, the tradition of Christian-Jewish polemics, and Arian leadership contest. "Politics of Polemics," providing an English-speaking reader with an unprecedented access to this unique polemical material, is a valuable source for the historians of the Radical Reformation and of Christian-Jewish relations in early-modern Poland.