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Das Glaubensverhör der Jüdin Rahel im Juni 1554 durch Nikolaus von Amsdorf als „Modus et forma judaei convertendi“

2008; Gütersloher Verlagshaus; Volume: 99; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.14315/arg-2008-0107

2198-0489

Hiram Kümper,

Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics

ABSTRACT The article provides the editio princeps of a protocol of a conversion examination held in 1554 by the orthodox Lutheran and Naumburg exile bishop Nicolaus of Amsdorf and Johann Weiß in Eisenach when a Jewish damsel named Rahel had solicited baptism. The protocol is discussed in terms of the historical situation of Thuringian Jews in the mid-sixteenth century and some crucial notions of Protestant attitudes toward Jewish converts as depicted by the examination