![]() ![]() This involves understanding what sort of ‘science’ the author attributed to the Jews: what do the Jews of the Pugio christianorum know? What is their sphere of knowledge? And how do they use this knowledge? The Pugio (together with another of Martí’s works, the Capistrum Iudaeorum) represented an innovation in the history of the controversy between the Jews and Christians, because for the first time systematic use was made of the Hebrew language and of Rabbinical literature in defence of the Christian faith. The aim of this paper is to define the image of the Jews reflected in the main work of the Catalan Dominican Ramon Martí (c. The Llibre del gentil can be read on two levels: a literal, where a religious disputation occurs between members of the three faiths, and an allegorical, where the work maps out the progress of the soul toward achieving cognitio Dei. Llull was aware of current mystical trends within the Jewish communities of Provence and Catalonia, and he hoped that his Jewish (and Muslim) interlocutors, recognizing the symbolic representations of the narrative, would engage with the work, leading to ecstatic experience and recognition of the truth of Christianity. The narrative is not just a literary device for the disputation between three wise men, but is an allegorical and symbolic representation of the via mystica. While the work has been cited for its tolerance toward the other faiths and for demonstrating Llull's knowledge of them, little attention has been given to the general framework in which the disputation takes place. It describes an interreligious disputation between a Jew, a Christian, and a Muslim for the edification of a truth-seeking Gentile. ![]() The Llibre del gentil e dels tres savis was written by the Catalan philosopher, mystic, and missionary Ramon Llull (ca. ![]()
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