His response was written in the light of past Jewish-Christian religious disputations, which traditionally had been forced upon the Jewish community.

Heated religious disputations were common, and Jewish scholars participated in them.

In 1557 he also took an active part in the religious disputation of Worms.

It was decided that there should be a religious disputation at Bern, on 6 January 1528, to settle these questions.

This was the religious disputation in which he was called upon to defend his faith in 1263.

From 1541 he was superintendent or chief minister of Nidda, and took part in several religious disputations between Catholics and Protestants.

He advised against religious disputations with the Gentiles and against teaching them the Torah.

The conversion methods of the Dominican monk were of a most insinuating kind-he usually began with a public religious disputation.

That we know near the beginning of Umberto Eco's new novel, set amid the wars and religious disputations of the 12th century.

The religious disputations and the persuasion of the priests, however, did not meet with any appreciable success, whereupon the government decided to suppress the Subbotniks violently.