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The 1492 Spanish expulsion is presented as a traumatic rupture that creates bitter division between converts and non-converts.
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Conversion
Jiang says Jewish persecution creates three crisis questions about conversion, unjust suffering, and the absent promised land.
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Jiang says Jewish persecution creates three crisis questions about conversion, unjust suffering, and the absent promised land.
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Zevi’s conversion is interpreted as a messianic sacrifice redeeming Jews from the sin of conversion and making the messianic age internal to believers.
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The conversion-night reading introduces a ritual of nakedness, cross-kissing, and ordered sexual relations before mass Catholic conversion.
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Jiang says the conversion ritual is a covenant of love that binds followers to each other before they convert and disperse.
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Jiang argues early Islamic expansion may have been more revolution than conquest because many enemies surrendered or opted into a new belief system rather than being militarily defeated.
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Intermarriage is a political technology: kings and princes use marriages to form alliances, but marriage can also require religious conversion.
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Jiang treats the official Catholic explanation of Christianity's triumph as insufficient because culture is persistent and other Roman-world belief systems were intellectually compelling.
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"And they are extremely good at finance. Okay? So the Jews prosper in this region. The problem is that over time, this region will..."
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"Okay? And the three big questions is the first law in the Jewish religion is do not worship false idols. That's the first law..."
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"So why is this happening? This creates a crisis of faith. Okay? And so whenever there's a crisis of faith Jews believe it is..."
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"...now redeeming the Jews all Jews from the original sin of conversion. Okay? And so by doing this he's saying it's okay to convert..."
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"Okay? And so he breaks a lot of these laws. But what Sadat Zevi is really saying is that don't apply because we all..."
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"...But before they do, they have a ceremony to mark their conversion. Okay? Can you read, Amber? On the night?"
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"On the night of that day, the following deed took place. The Lord set up a garden in the courtyard made up of our..."
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"And at the time, he said, with this deed, we go to the naked things. Therefore, it is necessary to go naked."
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"Okay, this deed is conversion, okay? So, what they're doing is this, they're converting to a new religion and they're supposed to swear loyalty..."
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"And therefore, you must disguise yourself. You must hide yourself. But remember that we will always find each other because we know each other..."
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"Okay? It is overturning the social order. The problem though is that eventually Islam will become the social order. So you obviously don't want..."
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"It's a revolution where ordinary people were so disgusted with the current leadership that they opted for a new belief system. Okay? The problem..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s lecture on Jewish history, Sabbatai Zevi, and Jacob Frank: Jerusalem begins as an imperial hinge, exile becomes a crisis of faith, and Frankism turns sin, story, money, secrecy, and...
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