https://milanzonca.org/tags/jewish-christian-polemic/Recent content in Jewish-Christian Polemic on Milan ŽoncaHugo -- 0.147.2enSun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://milanzonca.org/publications/polemical-dialogues/Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://milanzonca.org/publications/polemical-dialogues/This paper examines the polemical arguments with Christianity in Yom Tov Lipman Mühlhausen’s Sefer ha-Niẓaḥon. Focusing on Lipman’s attack on Christian image worship in his account of a disputation with the convert Peter (Pesaḥ), I argue that Lipman’s anti-Christian rhetoric drew on the vocabulary of contemporary Christian reform preachers in order to reshape Christian perceptions of the Jews while reinforcing his readers’ Jewish identity.https://milanzonca.org/publications/imagined-communities/Mon, 01 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +0000https://milanzonca.org/publications/imagined-communities/This article examines Yom Ṭov Lipman Mühlhausen’s treatise Sefer Niẓaḥon and argues that polemic against Christianity constitute only one facet of the book’s broader project, which aimed at popularising a Maimonidean reinterpretation of Jewish religion and redefining the boundaries of the Jewish community along intellectual lines.