Dear Eric Reiter,
Thank you very much for the references. Indeed I have seen A. C.
Gow's book, but it couldn't solve my particular problem. Gow mostly
leaves out the Jewish apocalyptic ideas, except when he discusses the
idea of the return of the ten lost tribes, which in German-Christian
eyes were equated with Gog and Magog, the terrible peoples, the 'Red
Jews'. Unfortunately, Gow considers few Jewish sources, except for the
writings of two early-sixteenth century converts to Christianity,
Victor von Carben and Antonius Margaritha. These, however, are not
altogether unreliable, to say the least.
And thanks for the reference to the Sixteenth Century Journal, which
I hadn't seen!
Cheers, Christoph
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> I didn't see mentioned Andrew Colin Gow, *The Red Jews: Antisemitism in an Apocalyptic
> Age, 1200-1600*, Studies in Medieval and Reformation Thought, 55 (Leiden: Brill, 1995).
> It and several other works on Jews in the Middle Ages and Early Modern period are
> reviewed in the current *Sixteenth Century Journal* 27/4 (1996): 1057-64.
>
> Eric Reiter
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