WANDERING JEW
Updated 04-May-2020.
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My botty best at summarizing from Wikipedia: the wandering jew is a mythical immortal man whose legend began to spread in the 13th century . the original legend concerns a Jew who taunted Jesus on the way to the Crucifixion . the name Wandering Jew may have been chosen because the Book of Esther describes the Jews as a persecuted people . the name buttadeus most likely has its origin in a combination of batuer many commentators have pointed to Hosea 9:17 as a statement of the notion of the “eternal/wandering Jew” according to some sources, the legend stems from Jesus’ words given in Matthew 16: a passage in the Gospel of John speaks about a guard who slaps Jesus . another passage talks about Simon Peter striking the ear from Malchus . malchus is one of many names given to the wander in his Leimonarion, Moschos recounts meeting a monk who purportedly met a figure who struck Christ . “that is why,” said Isidor, “i cannot stop wee a Latin chronicle from Bologna contains the first written articulation of the Wandering Jew . every hundred years the Jew returns to the age of 30 . a variant of the wandering jew legend is Matthew Paris included this passage from Roger of Wendover in his own history . other Armenians appeared in 1252 at the Abbey of St Albans . Guido Bonatti writes people saw the Wandering Jew in the supposed presence of the Wandering Jew has been used as a pretext for incursions by Gentiles into Jewish quarters . the legend spread quickly throughout Germany, no less than eight different editions appearing in 1602 eight editions in Dutch and Flemish are known . the story soon passed to France, the first French edition appearing in Bordeaux, 1609 . in England the Wandering Jew makes an appearance in one of the secondary plots the Wandering Jew also appears in two english broadside ballads of the 17th and 18th centuries . in two other works of Shelley, Ahasuerus appears as a phantom . in 1828 a new york publisher reprinted George Croly’s “Salathiel” in 1901 . in Lew Wallace’s novel The Prince of India (1893), the Wandering Jew is the protagonist the book follows his adventures through the ages, as he takes part in shaping of history . there are clear echoes of the Wandering Jew in Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman . the story of the Wandering Jew is the basis of the essay, “The Unhappiest One” in Sren Kierkegaard’s Either/Or (published 1843 in Copenhagen). in the play “Genboerne,” the Wandering Jew is a character and his shoes will make you invisible . Grenier’s 1857 poem on the subject may have been inspired by Gustave Doré’s designs “), is a dialog between the Wandering Jew (named as Ahasverus) and Prometheus at the end of time . Castro Alves, another Brazilian poet, wrote a poem named “Ahas the wandering of the Jew is depicted in a collection of short stories . the great Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges named the main character and narrator of his short story “The Immor in 1967, the Wandering Jew appears as an unexplained magical realist townfolk legend in Gabriel Garca Márquez’s 100 Years of Solitude . a Colombian the main feature of the statue is his eyes; they can express hatred and anger in front of Jesus carrying the cross . in Mariano Azuela’s novel of the Mexican Revolution, the character Venancio recounts episodes from the book is given to him by his Jewish master who is a philosopher . Dan is eventually tricked by Ruben and is sentenced by God to a life of insanity . Mircea Eliade presents in the novel Going to the Light Ahasuerus turns out to be Apostle Paul punished for inventing false religion . but Mike O’Bader insists he is a Gentile, not a Jew the character speaks and writes in Hebrew and English, and wanders around the desert . he has a tent overlooking the abbey founded by leibowitz . the character appears again in three subsequent novellas which the Wandering Jew also appears in Mary Elizabeth Counselman’s story “A Handful of Silver” a series of books features a character called Casca Rufio Longinus . there is a discussion about the in January 1987 DC Comics the 10th issue of Secret Origins gave the Phantom Stranger four possible origins . in one of these explanations, the Stranger confirms to a priest that he is the Wandering Je the Wandering Jew appears as a sympathetic character in Diana Wynne Jones’s novel The Homeward Bounders . his fate is tied in with larger plot themes regarding destiny, disobedience, and punishment “the wandering jew” is the title of a short poem by Edwin Arlington Robinson . in the poem, the speaker encounters a mysterious figure with eyes that “remembered everything” “the Wandering Je lazarus long claims to have encountered the wandering Jew at least once . he is described as having red hair and being a “crashing bore” in order to avoid eternal damnation, he must fully repent of the book of memoirs Domingos dictates in the 21st century to an anonymous transcriber narrates his own saga throughout 500 years of Brazilian history . the Wandering Jew is a character Sarah Perry’s 2018 novel Melmoth is part-inspired by the Wandering Jew . the novel captures the fortune of present-day wandering Jews created by humans using high technologies . a coloured caricature was used as a cover design for the June number of the satirical Journal pour rire . 1856, Gustave Doré, twelve folio-size illustrations of The Legend 1888, Adolf Hirémy-Hirschl, Ahasuerus at the End of the World. Private Collection. 1899, Samuel Hirszenberg, The Eternal Jew. Exhibited the “eternal jew” became an increasingly “symbolic … and universal character” struggle for Jewish emancipation in nineteenth century gave rise to “the Jewish Question” in 1843 Bruno Bauer’s book caricature first appeared in a french publication in 1852 . it was shown at the Nazi exhibition Der Ewige Jude in 1937–1938 . a reproduction of it was exhibited at Yad Vashem in 2007 avant-garde artists had been recognized and esteemed in the 1920s . the music was sufficiently popular to generate a Wandering Jew Mazurka . a Hebrew-language play titled the Eternal Je the play was produced both in Twickenham, London and on Broadway in 1921 . the play attempts to tell the legend literally, taking the jew from Biblical times to the Spanish Inquisition . in 1940, a another film version of the story, made in Italy in 1948, starred Vittorio Gassman . in the 1988 film The Seventh Sign the Wandering Jew appears as Father Lucci . the 2000 horror film Dracul in fargo, a character named Paul Marrane appears to three major characters . he acts as a source of counsel to two of them, one of whom he provides a chance at redemption . in the Japanese in “Lagrimas”, he is portrayed by Jeffrey Donovan as a drifter . his true identity is later revealed to be the cursed Roman soldier Cartaphilus . he now dedicates his time the character of Hob Gadling represents the archetypal Wandering Jew . in the manga, the character Cartaphilus is a mysterious being that looks like a young boy . he is d in a manga, the main character Fran discovers a man who can’t die . the Wandering Jew is presented as a childhood friend and disciple of Jesus . video game series Assassin’s Creed in the game Assassin’s Creed Unity, one of the sages is named the Wanderer . he is linked to the Wandering Jew, described as “a Jewish Sage born in Judea” x ISBN 9780550104113. Hasan-Rokem, Galit and Alan Dundes The Wandering Jew: Essays in the Interpretation of a Christian Legend . a period of nearly XIX centuries—detailed description of facts related to Jesus’s preaching . “the Wandering Image: Converting the Wandering Jew” Iconography and visual art.