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T H E J E W I S H Q U A R T E R LY R E V I E W , Vol. 99, No. 3 (Summer 2009) 323395 ``The Jews too were not absent . . . carrying Moses's Law on their shoulders'': The Ritual Encounter of Pope and Jews from the Middle Ages to Modern Times AMNON LINDER 1. PREFACE T H E RI T UAL E NC O UN T E R between pope and Jews was regularly performed in Rome--and occasionally elsewhere--between the high Middle Ages and the mid-ninteenth century. Essentially an interfaith ceremony, it acted out both the paradox of a ``deviant'' yet officially tolerated Jewish community and the solution to that anomaly; and it followed a script devised by the Christian authorities with the largely compulsory cooperation of the Jewish communal establishment. The encounter implied a dialogic relationship between the two parties and, consequently, a certain scope for formally challenging the hegemonic Christian creed. The ``mock-challenge,'' scripted into the proceedings, was destined to collapse in the eyes of the Christian beholder; the Jewish spectator, however, might choose to identify with the scripted Jewish theses rather than with their equally scripted
Jewish Quarterly Review – University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: Aug 21, 2009
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