Milhamoth HaShem

''Milhamoth ha-Shem'' ( he, מלחמות השם) or ''Milhamoth Adonai'' (Wars of the Lord) is the title of several Hebrew polemical texts. The phrase is taken from the Book of the Wars of the Lord referenced in .

''Milhamoth ha-Shem'' of Salmon ben Jeroham, 10th century

Solomon ben Jeroham's ''The Book of the Wars of the Lord'' (also Milhamoth Adonai מלחמות אדוני), is a refutation of Saadya Gaon.

''Milhamoth ha-Shem'' of Jacob ben Reuben, 12th century

The ''Milhamoth ha-Shem'' of Jacob ben Reuben, is a 12th-century Jewish apologia against conversion by Christians, consisting of questions and answers from selected texts of Gospel of Matthew, including Matt. 1:1–16, 3:13–17, 4:1–11, 5:33–40, 11:25–27, 12:1–8, 26:36–39, 28:16–20. It served as a precedent for the full Hebrew translation and interspersed commentary on Matthew found in Ibn Shaprut's ''Touchstone'' c. 1385.

''Milhamoth ha-Shem'' of Abraham, son of Maimonides, 13th century

Abraham ben Moses ben Maimon's ''Wars of the Lord'' is a treatise defending his father Maimonides against slander.

''Milhamoth ha-Shem'' of Nachmanides, 13th century

Nachmanides's ''Wars of the Lord'' is a Halakhic treatise attacking Zerahiah ha-Levi's commentary on Alfasi. The treatise goes in great detail on the piece of Talmud at hand.

''Milhamoth ha-Shem'' of Levi ben Gershom, 14th century

The ''Wars of the Lord'', also ''Milhamoth Adonai'' (מלחמות אדוני), of Levi ben Gershom, or Gersonides, or "RaLBaG", (1288–1344) is a religious, astronomical and philosophical treatise.

''Milhamoth ha-Shem'' of Abner of Burgos (Alfonso of Valladolid), 14th century.

Abner of Burgos (ca1260-ca1347) was a convert to Christianity who wrote polemical works in Hebrew between 1320–1340. This text is Hebrew anti-Jewish polemic that is now lost but quotations of it survive in the Latin writing of the fifteenth-century convert Paul of Burgos (Scrutinium Scripturarum) and the polemicist Alonso de Espina (Fortalitium fidei). It served as a template for Abner's later work ʾ''Moreh Zedek'', which now survives in a Castilian translation as ''Mostrador de justicia'' and much material from the Sefer is repeated there. Abner translated the work into Castilian himself at the behest of Blanca, Lady of Las Huelgas in Burgos around the year 1320, and a copy of this translation was seen by traveller Ambrosio de Morales in Valladolid in the 16th century.

''Milhamoth ha-Shem'' of Yiḥyeh Qafeḥ, 1931

The seminal work composed by Yiḥyeh Qafeḥ (Hebrew: ), Chief Rabbi of Sana'a, Yemen and protagonist of the Dor Deah movement in Orthodox Judaism. Qafeḥ's ''Milḥamot HaShem'' (1931), which he began to write in 1914, argues that the Zohar is not authentic.

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Jewish apologetics
Medieval Jewish history
Jewish medieval literature