Das Ihesus Christus eyn geborner Iude sey / Doctor Martinus Luther. Vuittemberg. M.D.xxiij
Other Titles
That Jesus Christ Was Born a Jew
Shelf Location
03-B1141
Subjects
Christology; Interfaith relations; Christianity; Judaism; Jesus Christ
Format
pamphlets
Genre
pamphlets
Publication Information
[Lukas Cranach und Christian Doring]: Wittemberg. 1523
Date
MDxxiij [1523]
Physical Description
[36] pages ; 20 cm (quarto)
Note
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 thi s 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