...This introductory chapter provides an overview of the three Jewish–Christian disputations which took place in the Middle Ages: the Paris Disputation of 1240, the Barcelona Disputation of 1263, and the Tortosa Disputation of 1413–14. Of these, the most celebrated is the Barcelona Disputation of 1263...

...This chapter presents a Hebrew account of the Tortosa Disputation. It looks at the report sent by the great scholar Bonastruk Demaistre to the holy congregation of Gerona, when the leaders of Israel stood in trouble and distress before Pope Benedict XIII at the request of Joshua Halorki, who, after...

...This chapter examines the Christian account of the Tortosa Disputation, which was contained in the voluminous minutes (protocols) kept by the papal notary at the sixty-nine sessions of the disputation. The protocols are preceded by two tables of contents: (1) a summary of topics discussed...

...This chapter assesses the Tortosa Disputation of 1413–14, which presented countless interesting aspects, historical, theological, and personal. Yet as far as the larger issues of Jewish–Christian confrontation were concerned, it added little to the Barcelona Disputation. The disputation as a whole...

..., and was Jewish spokesman at the disputation. Part III contains Jewish and Christian accounts of the Paris and Tortosa disputations. A new introduction reviews the relevant literature that has been published since the original edition appeared....