medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
I asked specifically about Jews under Ottoman rule. I have a resident
reader of Arabic, Aramaic, Persian, Ottoman, Turkish, & Hebrew.
DW
V. Kerry Inman wrote:
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
> >
> > Do you mean to say that Jews under Ottoman rule would have had the
> > option of doing their own burnings?
> >
> > DW
>
> Yes, the very text from which the execution of a Priest's wife is said
> to have been done by molten lead, was used by a former Rabbinics
> professor of mine to prove that he Jews had the option to execute even
> at the time of Christ. Other texts indicate that this authority
> continued to later times. This is contrary to what is usually believed
> to be the reason why the Jews brought Jesus to Pilate and Herod. I
> would have to dig up dusty notes from the attic, but could, if you
> wanted the texts. But then again they are in postbiblical Hebrew and
> Aramaic.
>
> --V. K. Inman
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