Christ The King

Peter the Venerable Against the Talmud

Christ The King

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Peter the Venerable, abbot of Cluny, was the first medieval Latin writer to name the Jewish Talmud. What did he get right, where did he conflate, and how did Saint Bernard's Jewish policy differ from his proposal to King Louis? A traditional Catholic analysis.https://christtheking.info/catholic-resources-on-adversus-judaeos/

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