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Spanning the Hellenistic period to the high Middle Ages, this history of Jewish martyrdom challenges the general consensus that martyrdom was an original Hellenisitic Jewish idea. Instead, Jews like Philo and Josephus internalized the idealized Roman concept of voluntary death and presented it as an old Jewish practice. While martyrs and martyrologies intended to show how Judaisim differed from Christianity, they, in fact, reveal a common mindset. Although the medieval martyrological option was played down during the Holocaust, medieval martyrologies are still featured in contemporary Ashkenazic prayers.
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For centuries martyrdom has played a formative role in the Judeo-Christian world. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
harugei malkhut, martyrological story, active martyrdom, martyred rabbis, ten martyrs, obligatory death, martyrological accounts, ten rabbis, voluntary death, crusade chronicles, rerum anglicarum, passive death, potential martyrs, actual martyrdom, anonymous mother, celestial reward, forced baptism, voluntary conversion, des historiens, noble death, seven sons Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
First Crusade, Sefer Yosippon, Jewish Antiquities, Jacob Tam, Avodah Zarah, French Jewry, Ashkenazic Jews, Byzantine Jews, Byzantine Jewry, French Jews, Judah ben Baba, Second Crusade, Sefer Hasidim, Against Apion, Asarah Harugei Malkhut, Lamentations Rabbah, Middle Ages, Black Death, Meir of Rothenburg, European Jewry, German Jewry, Hananiah ben Teradyon, Rabbi Yom Tov, Ephraim of Bonn, Holy One New!
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For centuries martyrdom has played a formative role in the Judeo-Christian world. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
harugei malkhut, martyrological story, active martyrdom, martyred rabbis, ten martyrs, obligatory death, martyrological accounts, ten rabbis, voluntary death, crusade chronicles, rerum anglicarum, passive death, potential martyrs, actual martyrdom, anonymous mother, celestial reward, forced baptism, voluntary conversion, des historiens, noble death, seven sons Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
First Crusade, Sefer Yosippon, Jewish Antiquities, Jacob Tam, Avodah Zarah, French Jewry, Ashkenazic Jews, Byzantine Jews, Byzantine Jewry, French Jews, Judah ben Baba, Second Crusade, Sefer Hasidim, Against Apion, Asarah Harugei Malkhut, Lamentations Rabbah, Middle Ages, Black Death, Meir of Rothenburg, European Jewry, German Jewry, Hananiah ben Teradyon, Rabbi Yom Tov, Ephraim of Bonn, Holy One New!
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- Josephus: Jewish Antiquities, Book 20 (Loeb Classical Library No. 456) by Josephus on 25 pages
- The Jewish War: Revised Edition (The Penguin Classics) by Flavius Josephus on 18 pages
- Martyrdom and Rome by G. W. Bowersock on 8 pages
- Jews in the Byzantine Empire (Research and Source Works) by Josua Starr on 8 pages
- From Autothanasia to Suicide: Self-Killing in Classical Antiquity by Anton van Hooff on 7 pages
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