Miriam Bodian's study of crypto-Jewish martyrdom in Iberian lands depicts                  a new type of martyr that emerged in the late 16th century -- a defiant, educated                  judaizing martyr who engaged in disputes with inquisitors. By examining closely the                  Inquisition dossiers of four men who were tried in the Iberian peninsula or Spanish                  America and who developed judaizing theologies that drew from currents of                  Reformation thinking that emphasized the authority of Scripture and the religious                  autonomy of individual interpreters of Scripture, Miriam Bodian reveals unexpected                  connections between Reformation thought and historic crypto-Judaism. The complex                  personalities of the martyrs, acting in response to psychic and situational                  pressures, emerge vividly from this absorbing book.

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