[I, among others, respectfully believe that the works of Maimonides are an unattributed key source of Aquinas’s renowned Summa Theologica (written 1265-1274 CE).

See entry later – Aquinas].

1146 CE: MURDER VICTIM: “DAUGHTER of ISAAC”

–Second Crusade

Caption on Mainz, Germany tombstone, Old Jewish Cemetery, Alt Israelitische Friedhof, extant today, on hillside overlooking the Rhine River, as visited and viewed by chronicler James Carroll:

“Daughter of Isaac drowned and murdered. Martyred in sanctification of the oneness of God in the year 906 (1146 CE) on the Friday, the fifth of Iyar (19 April). May she rest in Eden, the Garden.”

Note the nuance of the subtly defiant inscription in full public view:

“In sanctification of the oneness of God”—as opposed to the trinity of her killers.

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“That the daughter of Isaac was murdered in (April) 1146 CE indicates that she was a martyred victim of the Second Crusade, which was launched by a call of Pope Eugene III in March (the month prior) of that year. That the young woman died in April, within the month, suggests with what efficiency crusader terror returned to Mainz (after the First Crusade).”

–Shlomo Eidelberg, The Jews and the Crusaders, New Jersey: KTAV Publishing House © 1996, p. 126.

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