Nathan Ron

Biographic Data

ID454666
NAMENathan Ron
GIVEN NAMESNathan
FAMILY NAMERon
SIGNATURERON N
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Haifa
ORCID0000-0002-8715-5915
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS12
TOTAL CITATIONS4
AUTHOR COUNT12
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2014
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • The Entire World is my Homeland: Erasmus’s Universalism Reexamined

    Open AccessNathan RonARTICLEThe European Legacy2026

    Erasmus condemned nationalism, but did he promote universalism? In two essays examining Erasmus’s attitudes toward Jews and Judaism, Hildegard Cancik-Lindemaier and Christine Christ-von Wedel rationalize a universalist understanding of Erasmus based on their interpretation of Erasmus as not antisemitic. My paper challenges these two essays, and more broadly the volume in which Cancik-Lindemaier’s piece appears: Ralf Schöppner (ed.), Erasmus von R…

  • Francis of Assisi: His Life, Vision and Companions

    Nathan RonARTICLESpeculum2025

  • Buds of Jewish–Christian Dialogue in a German Milieu: Caspar Amman (c. 1450–c. 1524) and His Hebrew Correspondence

    Open AccessNathan Ron, Franz PossetARTICLERenaissance and Reformation2024

    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 fro…

  • Erasmus and the Jews: Revisiting the Narrative

    Nathan RonARTICLEThe European Legacy2024References: 14

    In the recently published Companion to Erasmus, Terence J. Martin commences his essay with the intriguing statement: “This chapter looks back to the works of Erasmus of Rotterdam, with an eye on hi

  • Johannes Reuchlin (1455-1522): A Unique Philosemitic Public Intellectual

    Open AccessNathan RonARTICLEThe European Legacy2023References: 19

    Intellectuals have been engaged in public life since antiquity: from Biblical prophets down to figures such as Machiavelli, Locke, Voltaire, Montesquieu, Rousseau, and other Enlightenment and later thinkers. This article focuses on the life and work of Johannes Reuchlin (1455-1522). Its primary source is Reuchlin’s Expert Opinion Whether to Confiscate, Destroy and Burn All Jewish Books (Ratschlag Ob Man Den Juden Alle Ire Bücher Nemmen, Abthun Un…

  • Nicholas of Cusa and the Ottoman Threat to Christendom

    Thomas M Izbicki, Nathan RonARTICLEMedieval Encounters2022

    Nicholas of Cusa (1401–1464) had a long-time interest in the possibility of dialog with muslims. When the Ottomans captured Constantinople in 1453, he authored a vision of religious peace in De pace fidei . By the time Pope Pius II called for a crusade against the Turks, Nicholas provided him with a critique of the Qurʾān. The changed viewpoint combined polemic with an effort to find Christian truths in the Islamic sacred text. This article trace…

  • Christ-von Wedel, Christine. Erasmus of Rotterdam: A Portrait

    Nathan RonARTICLERenaissance and Reformation2021

    Christ-von Wedel, Christine. Erasmus of Rotterdam: A Portrait.. An article from journal Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme (Spaces of Power of the Spanish Nobility (1480–1715)), on Érudit

  • Posset, Franz. Respect for the Jews. Foreword by Yaacov Deutch

    Nathan RonARTICLERenaissance and Reformation2020

  • "Erasmus and the "Other: On Turks, Jews, and Indigenous Peoples

    Open AccessNathan RonBOOKErasmus and the “Other”2019Cited by: 3

    This book investigates how Erasmus viewed non-Christians and different races, including Muslims, Jews, the indigenous people of the Americas, and Africans. Nathan Ron argues that Erasmus was devoted to Christian Eurocentrism and not as tolerant as he is often portrayed. Erasmus? thought is situated vis-a -vis the thought of contemporaries such as the cosmographer and humanist Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini who became Pope Pius II; the philosopher, sc…

  • Revealing the secrets of the Jews: Johannes Pfefferkorn and Christian writings about Jewish life and literature in Early Modern Europe

    Nathan RonARTICLEJournal of Modern Jewish Studies2018

    This volume consists of essays dealing with, or linked to, three converts from Judaism: Johannes Pfefferkorn (1469–1521), Victor von Carben (1422–1515) and Anthonius Margaritha (1492–1542). Pfeffer

  • Erasmus’ ethnological hierarchy of peoples and races

    Nathan RonARTICLEHistory of European Ideas2018

    No comprehensive research of Erasmus’ ethnological mind has been published, so far. Erasmus’ attitudes toward Turks and Jews were discussed analytically but not synthetically or comparatively. An attempt to widen the ethnological scope and to define and classify Erasmus’ attitudes toward different non-Christian groups is presented here. Christian Europeans (populus Christianus) were at the top of Erasmus’ echelon. Second to them were ‘half-Christ…

  • The Christian Peace of Erasmus

    Nathan RonARTICLEThe European Legacy2014Cited by: 1

    The aim of this essay is to show that Erasmus’s concept of peace should be understood as a form of irenicism rather than pacifism. I argue that Erasmus’s basic claims on war and peace do not qualify him as a pacifist, first of all because his concept of peace is non-universal: it is exclusively Christian since it does not include Muslims and Jews unless they have converted to Christianity. Secondly, Erasmus’s willingness to fight the Turks and hi…