Religious Studies
[PAST EVENT] The Milton & Shirley G. Salasky Lecture -- Professor Piero Capelli
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"A Source of Shame and Horror: Discovering, Translating, and Burning the Talmud in Medieval Christian Europe" by Professor Piero Capelli
At Paris in 1240, the Babylonian Talmud underwent a public trial that spurred a number of significant landmarks in Jewish, Christian and European history. Not least was the first translation of Talmud into a non-Jewish language, Latin. But more telling was the first attested burning of Jewish books in history, an event that launched a long tradition of Christian censorship and persecution against Rabbinic lore.
Piero Capelli is Professor of Hebrew in the Department of Asian and North African Studies at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. A scholar of late antique and medieval Judaism, he is the author of two important Italian monographs on Rabbinic Judaism: Rabbinic Literature from the Time of Jesus to the Closing of Talmud (1996) and Evil: The History of an Idea in Judaism from the Bible to Qabbalah (2012).
Sponsored by: Judaic Studies Program
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