ABSTRACT
The status of a Jew in the Muslim state of al-Andalus was associated with that of Christians. Jews and Christians, while enjoying some internal autonomy in religious and civil matters, were subject to the jurisdiction of Islamic law. The region that came to be known as Catalonia, had, in the second half of the eighth century, just started to come within the Carolingian sphere of influence. The argument about the arrival of Christ the Messiah proposed by Albarus Paulus was also reinforced in the opening Letter XIV by citing the book of Daniel 9:24– 27, known as the topic of the ‘seventy days’. Paulus appropriately equates the rule of Antichrist with the triumph of Islam and Muhammad. Paulus is quick to put him right and tell him that it was done by others, and to his mind, improved by Jerome in his later work.
