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Posset, Franz (2017). "In Search of the Historical Pfefferkorn: The Missionary to the Jews, 1507–1508". In Adams, Jonathan; Hess, Cordelia (eds.). Revealing the Secrets of the Jews: Johannes Pfefferkorn and Christian Writings about Jewish Life and Literature in Early Modern Europe. Berlin, Boston: Walter de Gruyter. pp. 43–60. doi:10.1515/9783110524345-009. ISBN 978-3-11-052254-9. Retrieved 2017-07-08. […] Also in the search for the historical Pfefferkorn, one encounters unverified statements about him, generally presented as if they respresent a scholarly consensus; namely, that not only was Pfefferkorn a butcher, but that he also had been convicted of burglary and theft and allegedly only converted to the Christian faith in Cologne shortly after his release from prison in 1504. The fact that Emperor Maximilian I (1455-1519) saw in Pfefferkorn a very learned citizen of Cologne, one of Jewish descent, in whose expertise he could trust in matters of the Jewish faith, and whom he therefore appointed as imperial solicitor on the issue of whether or not all Jewish books should be confiscated and burned, is usually overlooked or downplayed. Even recently (2011), Pfefferkorn has been described as an 'uneducated Jew'. […] Some of Pfefferkorn's detractors portrayed him as a Christian in name only, and in doing so exposed themselves as racists: just as an animal cannot change its nature, a Jew cannot change his, and even if you boil a rock in water for three days, the rock will never be cooked. […] His adversary's disciples, the Reuchlinists, never accepted Pfefferkorn's claim to be a sincere Christian believer. They always saw him as a Jewish opportunist who was faking his Christian faith. […] A critical biography of the historical Pfefferkorn remains a desideratum and will be possible once the edition of Pfefferkorn's texts become available. Jonathan Adams, Cordelia Hess. Tobias Epos (talk) 15:50, 8 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]