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Robert de Reddinge (converted c. 1275) Abba Sabra, fifteenth-century Ethiopian Orthodox monk who joined the Beta Israel (Ethiopian Jewish) community. He converted his pupil, prince Abba Saga, to Judaism and introduced monasticism to Ethiopian Jewry. Nicolas Antoine, former Protestant theologian.
Crypto-Judaism. Zera Yisrael. v. t. e. A number of religious groups, particularly Christians and Muslims, are involved in proselytization of Jews: attempts to recruit or "missionize" Jews. In response, some Jewish groups have formed counter-missionary organizations to discourage missionary and messianic groups such as Jews for Jesus from using ...
A formal male convert to Judaism is referred to by the Hebrew word ger ( Hebrew: גר, plural Hebrew: גרים gerim) and a formal female convert is a giyoret. In all branches of Judaism, a ger or giyoret is considered a full Jew; the literal meaning of "stranger", "resident", or "foreigner" refers to the convert's origin, not present status ...
I then taught a 12-part “Judaism 101” course based on Jewish history, holidays, theology and culture. This cohort was for the conversion candidates and some others who wanted to learn more ...
The conversion of the Jews is occasionally used in literature as a symbol of the far distant future. In Andrew Marvell 's poem To His Coy Mistress, it says, "And you should, if you please, refuse / Till the conversion of the Jews." "The Conversion of the Jews" is the title of a 1958 short story by Philip Roth, in his collection Goodbye ...
From Constantine I, when Christianity became the official religion of the Roman empire, the position of Christians to Jews changed.Some laws were instituted which protected the rights of Jewish converts from disinheritance, other laws also protected from abuse of the privileges of conversion from those who converted from Judaism "only for a cancellation of debt;" which suggests that in some ...
Given that conversion made New Christians subject to Inquisitorial prosecution as Catholics, crypto-Jews formally recorded Christian names and gentile surnames to be publicly used as their aliases in notarial documents, government relations and commercial activities, while keeping their given Hebrew names and Jewish surnames secret. [44]
The early church had survived the persecution after the execution of Stephen (around 36) (Acts 7:59) as well as the execution of James the Great under Herod Agrippa I (44) (Acts 12:2) and was therefore still tolerated by the leading groups of Judaism. It was therefore able to send out its missionaries to the Jews and Gentiles from Jerusalem to ...