Dying in the Law of Moses: Crypto-Jewish Martyrdom in the Iberian World

Dying in the Law of Moses: Crypto-Jewish Martyrdom in the Iberian World

by Miriam Bodian
Dying in the Law of Moses: Crypto-Jewish Martyrdom in the Iberian World

Dying in the Law of Moses: Crypto-Jewish Martyrdom in the Iberian World

by Miriam Bodian

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Overview

Miriam Bodian's study of crypto-Jewish martyrdom in Iberian lands depicts
a new type of martyr that emerged in the late 16th century -- a defiant, educated
judaizing martyr who engaged in disputes with inquisitors. By examining closely the
Inquisition dossiers of four men who were tried in the Iberian peninsula or Spanish
America and who developed judaizing theologies that drew from currents of
Reformation thinking that emphasized the authority of Scripture and the religious
autonomy of individual interpreters of Scripture, Miriam Bodian reveals unexpected
connections between Reformation thought and historic crypto-Judaism. The complex
personalities of the martyrs, acting in response to psychic and situational
pressures, emerge vividly from this absorbing book.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780253116918
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 05/22/2007
Series: The Modern Jewish Experience
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 304
File size: 4 MB

About the Author

Miriam Bodian is Professor of Jewish History in the Graduate School of
Jewish Studies at Touro College. Her book Hebrews of the Portuguese Nation:
Conversos and Community in Early Modern Amsterdam (IUP, 1998) received a National
Jewish Book Award for History and a Koret Prize for History.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
List of
Maps
Preface
Acknowledgments
List of
Abbreviations

1. The Historical Setting
2. The Dogmatista
Crypto-Jewish Martyrs
3. A Conquistador's Nephew in New Spain
4. A
Monk of Castanheira
5. A Converso Surgeon in the Viceroyalty of
Peru
6. A Hebrew Scholar at the University of Salamanca
7. Echoes
in the Portuguese-Jewish Diaspora

Appendix A: Commemoration of
Individual Martyrs in the Literature of the Portuguese-Jewish Diaspora, to
1683
Appendix B: Summary of Luis Carvajal's Nine Reasons for Adhering to
the Law of Moses, Audience of February 15, 1595, PLC,
235<N>238
Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
Index

What People are Saying About This

Allison P. Coudert

[A]n important and timely book. . . . While a great deal of work has been done on the Inquisitionthe approach taken here is very readable and up to date in its findings about this controversial institution; the intricacies of its operation are really brought home in the individual case studies.

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