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Table of Contents:

• Martyrs and martyrdom in the ancient world
• The Middle Ages
• Guilt, expiation, and courting death in the sixteenth century
• Appendix A. Don Lope de Vera y Alarcón: a Spanish proselyte-martyr
• Appendix B. Courting martyrdom in a Jewish-Christian polemic from seventeenth century Amsterdam
• Appendix C. Some early modern rabbinic sources related to courting death
• Appendix D. Hebrew sources
• Appendix E. Malkho's battle banner.

Author/Creator:

Gross, Abraham

Languages:

English
Hebrew

Language Notes:

Item content: English, Hebrew

Main Work:

Spirituality and law: courting martyrdom in Christianity and Judaism [by Gross, A.]

Related Series:

Studies in Judaism

Subjects:

Martyrdom — Judaism

Martyrdom — Christianity

Jewish martyrs

Christian martyrs

Judaism — Relations — Christianity

Christianity and other religions — Judaism

Martyrdom

Judaism

Relations

Christianity

Christianity and other religions

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [139]-144) and index.

Physical Description:

xiv, 148 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Call Numbers:

BM645.M34 G755 2005

ISBNs:

0761829970 (pbk., alk. ppr.)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2004112640

OCLC Numbers:

57757251