Odo of Tournai and the dehumanization of Medieval Jews: a reexamination.(debate with Leo the Jew)(Critical essay)

The Jewish Quarterly Review | September 22, 2008| | Copyright

OVER THE PAST TWO DECADES, Odo of Tournai (d. 1113) has become better appreciated as an important thinker of the twelfth-century renaissance. (1) First a prominent teacher of philosophy and science at Tournai's Notre-Dame cathedral school, Odo later withdrew to become abbot of the monastery of St. Martin of Tournai and ended his life as bishop of Cambrai. Among his many works Odo left one religious disputation: a Debate with the Jew, Leo, Concerning the Advent of Christ, the Son of God. (2) Like his contemporary Anselm of Canterbury, (3) Odo sought to demonstrate the rational ...

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