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Das Ihesus Christus eyn geborner Iude sey / Doctor Martinus Luther. Vuittemberg. M.D.xxiij; Title page recto

That Jesus Christ Was Born a Jew

Jesus Christ

Christology

Interfaith relations

Christianity

Judaism

Luther, Martin, 1483-1546

Cranach, Lucas, 1472-1553

Döring, Christian, -1533

[Lukas Cranach u. Christian Döring]

MDxxiij [1523]

No Copyright - United States

German

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4527556

1523

Wittemberg

pamphlets

[36] pages ; 20 cm (quarto)

Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary, Columbia University

Tower

03-B1141

original filename:1900200043

The first printing of Luther's early treatise, "That Jesus Christ was born a Jew", in which he denies the charges made against him that he did not believe in the Virgin Birth, but rather that Jesus was a naturally born child of Joseph and Mary. In this tract, Luther confesses that he believes that Jesus was born a Jew of the Virgin Mary. He also hopes that his teaching will bring more Jews to convert to Christianity. In his view, the teaching and practice of many who came before him, as well as of his opponents, was the chief cause that most Jews did not convert. Confronted with what had been traditional teaching before him, he says, to be a true Christian one would almost have had to become a Jew, and any sincerely believing and practicing Jew would as soon have become a pig as a Christian

Signatures: A-C⁴, D², E⁴

Title within wood-engraved architectural border

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recto, title page

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