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Spirituality and law : courting martyrdom in Christianity and Judaism / Abraham Gross.

Title: Spirituality and law : courting martyrdom in Christianity and Judaism / Abraham Gross.
Author: Gross, Abraham.
Publication: Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, c2005.

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xiv, 148 p. : ill.; 22 cm.

Series Statement

Studies in Judaism

Uniform Title

Studies in Judaism.

Alternative Title

Courting martyrdom in Christianity and Judaism

Subject

Bibliography (note)

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

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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.

ISBN

0761829970 (pbk. : alk. ppr.)

LCCN

^^2004112640

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Harvard Library