A Jewish Ideology of Martyrdom in a Comparative Perspective
During the first months of the First Crusade, groups of crusaders attacked the Jewish communities in the Rhineland, forcing them to choose between death and conversion to Christianity. Many converted, but many others chose to die as martyrs. Among these, some where killed by the crusaders, some kill...
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Diagonal-Verlag
2012
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Zeitschrift für Religionswissenschaft
Year: 2009, Volume: 17, Issue: 1, Pages: 43-60 |
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