Forgotten Origins by Juan Marcos Bejarano Gutierrez

Author:Juan Marcos Bejarano Gutierrez [Gutierrez, Juan Marcos Bejarano]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Yaron Publishing
Published: 2017-12-24T05:00:00+00:00

A much later example from Jewish history may help illuminate this issue. The Conversos, Iberian Jews forcibly converted to Christianity from the 14th through the early 16th centuries, provide us with a useful example of this phenomenon. Conversos were situated between the established Jewish communities of the Iberian Peninsula and Old Christians, i.e., Christians who were not of Jewish extraction. Like the Conversos of later centuries, Jewish Christians in the first century certainly had family members who were not fellow adherents. Christian thought and practice invariably influenced even those Conversos who remained faithful to Judaism in some form.

Conversos often conflated Christian ideas with Jewish ones. Conversos, like the early Jewish Christians, represented a broad spectrum of Jewish thought and practice. Conversos were able to maintain elements of Jewish identity, particularly in the 14th and 15th centuries because they continued to live in Jewish neighborhoods and had a Jewish family. Once the expulsion of Jews was ordered in 1492 by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella from Castile and Aragon, the ability of Conversos to maintain significant levels of Jewish identity declined sharply. Jews who believed in Jesus in the first century continued to live among Jews for some time. Non-Jews who adopted Christianity also filtered their faith through Jewish contacts.

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