While the campaign collapsed within the Empire within a few years, Heraclius’s campaign may have had its longest lasting impact beyond imperial frontiers. Some of the newly baptized would return to Judaism though others remained Christian. Independent of the appearance of the first Muslim invaders when Heraclius ordered all Jews throughout the Empire to be baptized on May 31, 632. While the story seems like something invented after the Muslim conquest, a strikingly similar account occurs in Islamic hadith literature while other texts point to a sudden, intense, and widespread persecution of the Jews before and Instead a new circumcised nation, the Arab Muslims, emerged and swiftly conquered much of Heraclius’s empire. Having learned his empire would be devastated by a circumcised nation, decreed all Byzantine Jews be baptised and urged Dagobert baptize all Jews in Gaul. more According to the Frankish Chronicle of Fredegar, Emperor Heraclius, For the next century, there is no evidence of Jews in Francia.Īccording to the Frankish Chronicle of Fredegar, Emperor Heraclius, In Gaul, both the Frankish church and civil authorities had already been groping towards such policies and, under Heraclius’s prompting and Dagobert’s leadership, they may have succeeded in creating the first Christian state purged of Jews. It was beyond imperial frontiers that Heraclius’s campaign may have had its longest lasting impact.
Within a decade, Egypt and the Levant had been lost to Muslim rule (and the Jews saved) while, in the regions over which imperial control remained, some Jewish communities survived the period of persecution and soon began to recover. Heraclius wrote to Visigothic Spain via the Pope (though the Spanish church rebuked him) as well as to the Franks, yet his religious policy was far from successful in his own realm. Other texts point to a sudden, intense, and widespread persecution of the Jews before and independent of the appearance of the first Muslim invaders: Heraclius ordered all Jews throughout the Empire to be baptized on May 31, 632. That two accounts agreeing on many things are found in widely separated traditions suggests a reality behind the story. The story seems like something invented after the Muslim conquest though a strikingly similar account occurs in Islamic hadith literature. Both were startled when a new circumcised nation, the Arab Muslims, emerged and swiftly conquered much of Heraclius’s empire. He decreed that all Jews be baptised and wrote to the Frankish king Dagobert urging him to do the same. more : In the early 660’s, a Frankish chronicler wrote that the Byzantine Emperor, Heraclius, learned through astrology that his empire would be devastated by a circumcised nation.
: In the early 660’s, a Frankish chronicler wrote that the Byzantine Emperor, Heraclius, learned.
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