Who are the individuals mentioned in the Yom Kippur martyrology?
• var addthis_pub=”mjl08″;var addthis_options = ‘favorites, digg, delicious, myspace, google, facebook, reddit, live, more’; The Yom Kippur martyrology liturgy recounts graphically the deaths of 10 rabbis at the hands of Roman authorities. The following article, reprinted with permission from The Jewish Religion: A Companion, published by the Oxford University Press, explores this liturgy in tradition and in modern scholarship. The 10 teachers, among them Rabbi Akiba, Rabbi Ishmael, and Rabban Simeon ben Gamaliel, who suffered a martyr’s death at the hands of the Romans: The story of the 10 martyrs is told in a late Midrash, and poetic versions of it are part of the liturgy for the Ninth of Av–Tisha B’Av–and Yom Kippur. According to this legend, the Roman emperor wished to put to death 10 of the foremost scholars in expiation of the sin of Joseph’s brethren who had sold him (Genesis 37), since the Torah states: “He that stealeth a man and selleth him … shall be put to death” (Exodu
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