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In Isaiah 53, a chapter in the Hebrew Bible, [1] [2] a virtuous servant is murdered but does not protest: "Like a sheep being led to the slaughter or a lamb that is silent before her shearers, he did not open his mouth" (Isaiah 53:7). His silence is praised because there was no "deceit in his mouth" (Isaiah 53:9).
The Zaporozhian Cossacks were generally indifferent to religious matters and bore no particular ill will toward the Jews until the late 1630s. [1] They often included religious Jews among their company, but after the Union of Brest Mazur immigration introduced a negative feeling against the Jews from Poland to Ukraine during the reign of ...
As a result, God decreed Amalek to be obliterated "from beneath the heavens" (Deuteronomy 25:19). The Hebrew Bible connects "Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite" (Esther 3:1), the genocidal antagonist of the Book of Esther, to Agag, king of Amalek, whom the Israelites failed to kill (I Samuel 15:9). According to these verses Hitler may be ...
The events described in the Bible known as the Binding of Isaac is the primal and archetypal example of martyrdom in the Torah. Abraham is called upon to fulfill God 's commandment to slaughter his son Isaac , [ 5 ] and Isaac to willingly submit to this and offer his life up as a korban [ 6 ] or "sacrifice" and hence, if need be, dying as a ...
[26] [27] Such visions of an end to the old Temple may be read as embodying the replacement theology, according to which Christianity supersedes Judaism. [ 27 ] The culmination of this rhetoric, and arguably the one verse that has caused more Jewish suffering than any other second Testament passage, is the uniquely Matthean attribution to the ...
By the end of 1941, they had killed 500,000 people, and by 1945 they had murdered about two million - 1.3 million of whom were Jewish. Behind the lines, Nazi commanders were experimenting with ...
The Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary similarly argues that God made Israel the "holy nation" to exclusively uphold the promises made to their "pious forefathers". They argue that Jewish supremacist views are unsound, with Jews being frequently described as a small people that engaged in "perverse" moral conduct in the Bible. [62]
The massacre took place from September 23-26 as White troops from the Volunteer Army, primarily Terek Cossacks, entered the town under the lead of the Colonel V.F. Belogortsev went door to door, killing Jews. [1] Historians Oleg Budnitskii wrote that Cossacks would ask Jews for money and tortured those who could not provide.