Sephardic Explosions In The Bible Or The Requerimiento
1 In this context, the written text was not so much to be understood as to be venerated: “neither the Bible nor the Requerimiento were documents that demanded interpretation; they were instead touchpapers for the violent explosion of imperial expansion, code words in the <> enacted by the [Iberian colonizers] in the dark” (Beasley-Murray 5).
2 Helmreich 2010
3 Indeed, Jewish experience, as it is the case of the Sephardic exile, frequently implies “multiple experiences of re-diasporization, which do not necessarily succeed each other in historical memory but echo back and forth” (Boyarin 1993).
4 Cf. Newitt 2010