Korespondencja Chasdaja ibn Szapruta i chazarskiego króla Józefa: Przyczynek do historii chrześcijańskiej recepcji Księgi Kuzari Jehudy ha-Lewiego
Correspondence Between Hasdai ibn Shaprut and Khazar King Joseph: A Glimpse on the History of the Christian Reception of Judah Halevi’s Book of the Kuzari

Summary/Abstract: The paper offers a Polish rendering of Johannes Buxtorf’s Preface to his Latin translation of The Book of the Kuzari (Basel 1660), the first ever translation of JudahHalevi’s opus magnum into a European language. The Preface includes inter alia Buxtorf’s rendering of the famous correspondence between Hasdai ibn Shaprut and the Khazar King Joseph. As part of the article, it was translated from Latin into Polish and compared with the Hebrew original. The introductory part of the paper explores Buxtorf’s text highlighting tendentious trends in his approach to Judaism and Jews in general and to Halevi’s treatise in particular, as well as pinpointing polemical and/or apologetic comments in both his Preface to The Kuzari and his Latin translation of the Khazar correspondence.

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