Editing Johann Eck (section)

==Eck and the Jews==
In 1541 Eck published his ''Against the Defense of the Jews'' (German: ''Ains Juden-büechlins Verlegung''). In it he opposes the position of the Nuremberg reformer [[Andreas Osiander]], who in the pamphlet ''Whether It Be True and Credible That the Jews Secretly Strangulate Christian Children and [[Blood libel|Make Use of Their Blood]]'' wanted to quash medieval suspicion that Jews were responsible for killing Christian children, desecrating the [[eucharist]]ic Host, and poisoning wells. Eck accused Osiander of being a "Jew-protector" and "Jew-father", and no fewer than nineteen times reviled the Jews, and called them "a blasphemous race".<ref>''Ains Juden-büechlins Verlegung'', fol. J 3r, quoted in [[Heiko Oberman|Heiko A. Oberman]], ''The Roots of Antisemitism in the Age of Renaissance and Reformation'', translated by James I. Porter, (Philadelphia: [[Fortress Press]], 1984), 37; cf. also pp.&nbsp;4–5, 17, 36–37, 42, 46–47, 58, 72–73, 87, 91, 101, 121, 135.</ref>