 The two conflicting Christian parties were represented by Capnio (Reuchlin) and the Inquisitor Jacob van Hoogstraaten, O.P.In conciliatory terms, Galatino responded to the queries and suggestions of the former, and refuted the objections of the latter.He had borrowed largely from the "Pugio Fidei" of the Dominican Raymond Martini, remodelling, however, the material and supplementing it with copious quotations from the "Zohar" and the "Iggeret ha-sodot" of the Jewish convert Pablo de Heredia.