Erasmus and the Jews

Name: Erasmus and the Jews
Brand: The University of Chicago Press

The University of Chicago Press

Erasmus and the JewsAuthor(s): Shimon Markish\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: The University of Chicago Press, United States\nImprint: University of Chicago Press\nISBN-13: 9780226505909, 978-0226505909\nSynopsis\nErasmus of Rotterdam was the greatest Christian humanist scholar of the Northern European Renaissance, a correspondent of Sir Thomas More and many other learned men of his time, known to his contemporaries and to posterity for subtlety of his thought and the depth of his learning. He was also, according to some modern writers, an anti-Semite. In this complete analysis of all of Erasmus' writings on Jews and Judaism, Shimon Markish asserts that the accusation cannot be sustained. For Markish, to ask whether Erasmus was a friend or enemy of the Jews is to ask a modern question of a sixteenth-century man, whose attitude can best be called \""asemitism.\"" Erasmus' chief preoccupation was with the future of \""the true philosophy of Christ\""; he had little interest in the Jewish com.