Joachim martillo biography

Our friend Joachim Martillo produces a lot of interesting material, often as not connected with Jews, Islam , Israel , Eastern Europe . Here is a small collection of his recent and learned writing (you can get on his list by dropping an email to ThorsProvoni@

Judging Jewish Historical Claims

by Joachim Martillo 

When I was taking Jewish studies courses at Harvard, a group of us undergraduates realized that there were four basic principles that we had to apply to evaluate the truth of Jewish historiography about Jewish communities.

1. Everything almost invariably takes place later than claimed.

Joachim martillo biography

The best example is the collapse of second Temple Judaism into many separate currents. From these "Judaisms," Constantinian Christianity crystallizes first, then Islam, and the last is Medieval Judaism, which crystallizes in the tenth century CE and later develops into Modern Judaism.

In other words modern Judaism is