Sefer Joseph Hamekane

Sefer Joseph Hamekane the Book of Joseph the Official is a 13th C. Jewish apologetic text. The primary edition (in Hebrew) is by Judah Rosenthal (Jerusalem, 1970). The book is also sometimes translated Book of Joseph the Zealot.[1]

The book is the third oldest of a series of treatises containing selected rabbinical translations of Matthew; Book of Nestor (6th-9th C.), Milhamot HaShem (1170), Nizzahon Vetus (c.1280), leading to Ibn Shaprut's Touchstone, and Jean du Tillet's Hebrew Matthew, and Rahabi Ezekiel's Hebrew Matthew of the 1750s.

References

  1. ^ Anna Sapir Abulafia Religious violence between Christians and Jews: medieval roots p94 2002 "This is illustrated clearly in an episode in Sefer Joseph Hamekane (Book of Joseph the Zealot, France, thirteenth century), recounting a conversation in Paris between the 'Chancellor' and two rabbis.29 The Christian claimed that from .."