In the eighteenth century, Jewish-Christian polemics fueled a legal dualism among French officials, Jewish communities, and Christian Hebraists. Out of this friction emerged the Recueil des Loix, Coutumes, et Usages Observes par les Juifs de Metz, which illuminated Jewish laws for French judges unschooled in Hebrew and the regional Judeo-Allemande dialect. Metz officials’ request for the Recueil cheered Jewish leaders who hoped to enhance Christian interest in the community’s internal life, even as skeptical Metz Jews likely suspected intensified surveillance of their transactions both among themselves and with Christians. Still, in interpreting Jewish law, ancien regime courts did not uniformly promote antisemitism. On the contrary, as seen in the compilation of the Recueil, judges often explored Jewish law with genuine curiosity and sought to reconcile it with Christian ideals, even if some judges clung to a hope of converting Jews, for which purpose Jewish law needed to be understood.

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由原始犹太教与基督教争论塑造的旧政权法理学

十八世纪，犹太教与基督教的争论助长了法国官员、犹太社区和基督教希伯来主义者之间的法律二元论。从这种摩擦中出现了Recueil des Loix、Coutumes 和用法观察梅斯的果汁，这本书为未受过希伯来语和犹太-阿勒曼德地区方言教育的法国法官阐明了犹太法律。梅斯官员要求雷库埃犹太领袖们欢呼雀跃，他们希望提高基督徒对社区内部生活的兴趣，尽管持怀疑态度的梅斯犹太人可能怀疑他们之间以及与基督徒之间的交易受到加强监视。尽管如此，在解释犹太法律时，旧政权法院并没有统一宣扬反犹太主义。相反，从汇编中可以看出雷库埃，法官经常怀着真正的好奇心探索犹太法律，并寻求将其与基督教理想相协调，即使一些法官坚持希望改变犹太人的信仰，为此目的需要理解犹太法律。