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Over a hundred thousand of Spain's Jews converted to Catholicism as a result of pogroms in 1391. [4] Those remaining practicing Jews were expelled by the Catholic monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella in the Alhambra Decree in 1492, following the Catholic Reconquest of Spain. As a result of the Alhambra Decree and persecution in prior years, over ...
Many Christians believe in a widespread conversion of the Jews to Christianity, which they frequently consider an end-time event. Some Christian denominations consider the conversion of the Jews imperative and pressing, and as a result, they make it their mission to proselytize among them (See also: Proselytization and counter-proselytization ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Jesus was Jewish, preached to the Jewish people, and called from them his first followers. According to McGrath, Jewish Christians, as faithful religious Jews, "regarded their movement as an affirmation of every aspect of contemporary Judaism, with the addition of one extra belief – that Jesus was the Messiah."
Spread. Christianity spread to Aramaic -speaking peoples along the Mediterranean coast and also to the inland parts of the Roman Empire, [41] and beyond that into the Parthian Empire and the later Sasanian Empire, including Assyria and Mesopotamia, which was dominated at different times and to varying extents by these empires.
Christians had also practiced their religion openly in Córdoba, and both Jews and Christians lived openly in Morocco as well. The first Almohad ruler, Abd al-Mumin, allowed an initial seven-month grace period. [83] Then he forced most of the urban dhimmi population in Morocco, both Jewish and Christian, to convert to Islam. [84]