Buds of Jewish–Christian Dialogue in a German Milieu: Caspar Amman (c. 1450–c. 1524) and His Hebrew Correspondence
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This year, 2024, is the 500th anniversary of Caspar Amman’s passing. The German priest and Hebraist kept records of nineteen letters in Hebrew. The letters portray not only a picture of scholarly early modern Jewish–Christian collaboration, as Eric Zimmer has shown, but also an attempt by at least one Jewish rabbi to initiate a dialogue with the German priest. The exceptional letter, addressed to Caspar Amman by Rabbi Moshe Elchanan Bacharach from Swabia, was hitherto not translated into English and barely referenced in the literature. This and additional letters, sixteen in total, are published here for the first time in English (in the appendix). The epistolary corpus reflects mutual respect and appreciation, a shared love for the Hebrew language and the Hebrew book, and the use, by Hebraists, of the title “rabbi” to mark respect and appreciation. Given Gershom Scholem’s denial of any historic German–Jewish dialogue—or, alternatively, irrespective of it—these buds of a Christian–Jewish dialogue appear like rays of light piercing the darkness. Still, they could not withstand the spirit of the time.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".