'A Scholarly Edition of the Gamaliel (Valencia: Juan Jofre, 1525)' is a modernized edition of a late medieval devotional that formed part of the narrative tradition of 'La Vengeance de Nostre-Seigneur', which gained popularity from the twelfth century. The 1525 compendium 'Gamaliel' is comprised of seven loosely related texts, including the Passion of Christ, the Destruction of Jerusalem, the biographies of Lazarus, Mary, and Martha, and the Slaughter of the Innocents. The 'Gamaliel' was reproduced in over a dozen Spanish and Catalan printed editions in the first half of the sixteenth century until it was banned by the Spanish Inquisition beginning in 1558, likely due to its anonymous authorship and apocryphal content.
Author(s): Laura Delbrugge
Series: Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World, 73
Publisher: Brill
Year: 2020
Language: English, Spanish
Pages: 248
City: Leiden
Acknowledgments
Part 1. Introduction
Introduction and Cultural Context of the Gamaliel
1. Origin and Content of the 'Gamaliel'
2. Book One: The Passion of Christ
3. Book Two: The Destruction of Jerusalem
3.1. Textual Dissemination of the 'Gamaliel's' Destruction of Jerusalem Legend
4. Book Three: Additional Devotional Narratives in the 'Gamaliel'
4.1. Book Three, Chapters One through Four: Lazarus, Mary Magdalene, and Martha, Siblings and Natives of Jerusalem, and a Conversation between Lazarus and the Virgin Mary
4.2. Book Three, Chapters Five through Eight: A Dialogue between Christ and the Virgin Mary before the Crucifixion
4.3. Book Three, Chapter Ten: The Making of the Crown of Thorns
4.4. Book Three, Chapter Eleven: The Flight to Egypt
4.5. Book Three, Chapter Twelve: The Death of the Innocents
4.6. Chapters Thirteen through Sixteen: John the Baptist and the Baptism of Christ
4.7. Penultimate Chapter: A Short Letter from Publius Lentulus (Publio Lentulo), Ambassador to Judea, to the Roman Senate about Jesus Christ
4.8. Final Chapter: A Sermon by Saint Jerome
5. Fifteenth and Sixteenth Century Editions of the 'Gamaliel'
5.1. Catalan Editions
5.2. Spanish Editions
5.3. Bibliographic Ghosts
5.4. Portuguese Editions
6. The 'Gamaliel': Popular Devotional as Profitable Incunable
7. The 'Gamaliel' as Apocryphal Text
8. The 'Gamaliel' as Anti-Semitic Text
9. Pontius Pilate in the 'Gamaliel'
Part 2. Edition
Editorial Principles
1. Editorial Criteria
2. Resolution of Abbreviations
3. Spelling and Word Division
4. Capitalization and Punctuation
5. Text-cuts
A Scholarly Edition of the 'Gamaliel' (Valencia: Juan Jofre, 1525)
Appendix
Bibliography
Index
