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NAHMANIDES in Medieval Catalonia 5 History, Community, & Messianism NAHMANIDES in Medieval Catalonia 5 History, Community, & Messianism NINA CAPUTO University of Notre Dame Press Notre Dame, Indiana © 2007 University of Notre Dame Press caputo.indb iii 10/11/07 10:16:50 AM Copyright © 2007 by University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, Indiana 46556 www.undpress.nd.edu All Rights Reserved Designed by Wendy McMillen Set in 10.3/13.2 Minion by EM Studio Printed on 55# Natures Recycle paper in the U.S.A. by Versa Press, Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Caputo, Nina, 1966– Nahmanides in medieval Catalonia : history, community, and messianism / Nina Caputo. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN-13: 978-0-268-02293-8 (pbk. : alk. paper) ISBN-10: 0-268-02293-3 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Nahmanides, ca. 1195–ca. 1270. 2. Maimonides, Moses, 1135–1204. 3. Bible. O.T. Genesis—Commentaries. 4. Nahmanides, ca. 1195–ca. 1270. Vikuah ha-Ramban. 5. Barcelona Disputation, Barcelona, Spain, 1263. 6. Christianity—Controversial literature—History and criticism. 7. Judaism—Apologetic works—History and criticism. 8. Christianity and other religions—Judaism. 9. Judaism—Relations—Christianity. 10. Messianic era (Judaism) 11. Messiah—Judaism. 12. Nahmanides, ca. 1195–ca. 1270—Language. 13. Catalan language. I. Title. BM755.M62C35 2007 296.3'96092—dc22 2007033427 This book printed on recycled paper. © 2007 University of Notre Dame Press caputo.indb iv 10/11/07 10:16:50 AM Introduction This book examines medieval Jewish conceptions of history and messianic redemption in the writings of the Catalonian rabbi, Nah- manides (Rabbi Moses ben Nahman, or Ramban, ca. 1195–1270). A bril- liant tal mudic and biblical commentator and an early exponent of Kab- balah, Nahmanides was also a shrewd and well-regarded intermediary between the Jewish communities and the royal administration. He has long been the subject of intellectual histories set against the context of me- dieval Jewish inter- and intra-communal relations, and specifi cally the en- counter between philosophy and mysticism. However, intensive focus on the fairly insular context of Jewish community dynamics and interpretive disputes allows for only a limited view of thirteenth-century Aragonese Jewish intellectual and cultural life. Jews played a signifi cant role in the expansion of the Crown of Aragon during the thirteenth century. It comes as no surprise, then, that as members of this society, Jews actively contrib- uted to, reacted to, and participated in broader Aragonese culture. There is a fairly sizable body of social history based on materials held in the royal archives examining Jewish-Christian relations in the medieval Crown of Aragon, especially in the increasingly important urban centers. The en- counter between Jewish and Christian interpretations of history and re- demption in the setting of late medieval Aragon, however, remains largely unexamined. This study reads Nahmanides’ refl ections on the contours of Judaism and conceptions of redemption as a negotiation with Catalonian and, more generally, Aragonese culture and society. The broader cultural con- text adds a crucial dimension to an understanding of the forces that shaped his compositions and the expectations his audience may have held 1 © 2007 University of Notre Dame Press caputo.indb 1 10/11/07 10:16:51 AM 2 Nahmanides in Medieval Catalonia when reading them. Nahmanides’ writings, from his biblical exegesis to his poems, letters, and specifi cally polemical works, presented a self- conscious interpretation of the shape and meaning of historical time and change. In large measure, this discourse actively confronted Christian views of history and scripture, sometimes embracing Christian forms, but at other times directly refuting them. This complex engagement with Chris tian understandings of the signifi cance of continuity and commu- nity is also refl ected in the interpretive or exegetical models Nahmanides presented to his reader. A concern with revealing messianic redemption as imminent is a recurring theme throughout his writings. His careful articu- lation of this argument in various works, cast as an exegesis of biblical texts and historical events, illustrates an eff ort to preserve a cohesive and commonly held understanding that Jewish, not Christian, worship and in- terpretation would ultimately pave the way to redemption. Nevertheless, the structure of his arguments, the literary forms they took, and the way he introduced and grouped prooftexts all refl ect Nahmanides’ conception of Christian interpretations of Jewish history and scripture as both pow- erful and deeply problematic. Nahmanides’ ambivalence about Christian interpretations of the com- mon historical origins of Judaism and Christianity as well as the culture and history they shared in the diaspora is mirrored by a similar ambiva- lence on the part of modern scholars about how to represent and under- stand the historical context for the roles and treatment of Jews in the medieval Crown of Aragon. Until the middle of the fi fteenth century, the Jews of medieval Iberia enjoyed a degree of social, cultural, and intellec- tual integration that was unparalleled in late medieval European Chris- tendom. Iberian Jewry’s cultural and social ascent has been cast in scholarly and popular narratives either as a model of medieval tolerance or as a les- son in the dangers of Jewish comfort and acculturation in the diaspora. Both interpretations can be supported with substantial documentary evi- dence, but neither provides a thoroughly satisfying interpretation of how Jews in late medieval Iberia negotiated the diffi cult terrain of interfaith re- lations in a multi-faith society. The fi rst of these narrative models presents medieval Iberian Jews as nearly full participants in the public sphere, encountering legal discrimi- nation or persecution primarily in times of political or economic pressure. Scholars who adopt this approach tend to view the history of Jews under Christian and Muslim rule as part of a cultural and social continuum. © 2007 University of Notre Dame Press caputo.indb 2 10/11/07 10:16:51 AM Introduction 3 Under Iberian Christian rule, Jewish communities enjoyed many benefi ts of royal protection and privilege, while individuals were entrusted with positions of signifi cant infl uence and prestige. Christian Spain during the high middle ages was a diverse, multilingual society which contained sig- nifi cant minority populations of Jews and Muslims. As such, the public sphere, especially in urban centers, encouraged some measure of ‘secular’ culture—a culture in which close business and intellectual relationships could form across confessional lines. This interpretation focuses on the unique conditions of Iberian religious and political history that provided the necessary context for a thriving interfaith symbiosis, a true conviven- cia, to use Americo Castro’s evocative language. The late medieval decline of Jewish communities in Iberia provides evidence for an equally dramatic and compelling if teleological interpre- tation. A mass uprising in 1391, spurred on by preachers who viewed the cultural and social permissiveness and the close ties between the crown and the Jewish communities as threatening to Iberian Christianity, re- sulted in the murder or forced conversion of nearly two-thirds of Spanish Jewry. The imposition of restrictions on Jewish religious and business practices followed, then nearly a century of concentrated persecution of Jewish communities, and fi nally the wholesale expulsion of Jewish com- munities from Christian Spain in 1492. This emphasis on the tragedy of late medieval Iberian Jewish history evaluates the thirteenth and four- teenth centuries through the lens of the Inquisition. Modern critics as- sume that the relative comfort and ease of Jewish-Christian relations during this period blinded Jewish leaders to signs of inevitable decline that should have been obvious at the time. Because it focuses on the fi nal chapter of Iberian Jewish history, this interpretation implicitly negates any positive or creative exchange between Jews and Christians during the high middle ages. When analyzing the circumstances of medieval Iberian Jewish his- tory and culture over the long term, whether constructed in heroic or tragic terms, scholars must account for a broad and complex assortment of causes and outcomes while using a relatively limited set of explanatory models. Circumscribing the temporal and/or geographic range of study provides one means of complicating and enriching both the terms used to describe the conditions of medieval Jewish life in Christian Spain and the explanatory mechanisms used to account for change. Though he belonged to an international Jewish diaspora, Nahmanides’ engagement with Jewish © 2007 University of Notre Dame Press caputo.indb 3 10/11/07 10:16:51 AM 4 Nahmanides in Medieval Catalonia traditions and texts and his negotiation with Christian traditions, culture, and politics were informed by his daily life in the Crown of Aragon. Jewish communities in the Crown of Aragon remained largely self- governed and autonomous; Jews practiced a wide variety of occupations, ranging from agricultural production to high-stakes commerce. While some members of the intellectual and economic elites attained a measure of acculturation, Jewish forms of cultural expression—including exegesis, polemics, mysticism, as well as institutions of self-government— continued to thrive even into the fi fteenth century. Nahmanides’ biography off ers a compelling
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