=East, the, the Roman governors of.= _See_ Amantius; Bonosus.
=East India Company=, the, Jews interested in, =4=, 677.
=Easter=, the date of, fixed, =2=, 563-4. to be celebrated before the Passover, =3=, 13. tax to be paid at, by Jews, =3=, 510.
=Eastertide attacks upon Jews=, in France, =3=, 173-4. in Béziers, =3=, 394. in Prague, =4=, 164. in Majorca, =4=, 246. in Trent, =4=, 298.
=Eastertide, Jews forbidden to appear in public during=, by the Councils of Orleans, =3=, 37. by the Council of Mâcon, =3=, 39, 171. by the Fourth Lateran Council, =3=, 510. by the Council of Narbonne, =3=, 518. by the Council of Béziers, =3=, 582. by the code of Alfonso X, =3=, 595. in Ratisbon, =3=, 635. by Eugenius IV, =4=, 250. by Henry IV of Castile, =4=, 278.
“=Eben Bochan=,” polemic by Shem-Tob ben Isaac Shaprut, =4=, 142.
=Eben ha-Ezer=, scene of battles between Israelites and Philistines, =1=, 70, 78.
=Eberard=, Magister Judæorum, under Louis the Pious, =3=, 161. and the bishop of Lyons, =3=, 164, 166.
=Eberhard von Cleve=, Dominican provincial, complains of the treatment of his order, =4=, 465-6.
=Ebionim= (Dallim), disciples of Isaiah, =1=, 254.
=Ebionites= (Ebionim), the, followers of Jesus, =2=, 168, 366. communists, =2=, 220. disappearance of, =2=, 373. use Akylas’ Scripture translation, =2=, 387. merged into the Catholic Church, =2=, 500. _See under_ Jewish Christians, the; Judæan Christians, the.
=Ecbatana=, taken by Cyrus, =1=, 342. the goddess of love worshiped in, =1=, 408.
=Ecclesiastes, the Book of=, holiness of, discussed in the Synhedrion, =2=, 343-4. exposition of, by Samuel Ibn-Tibbon, =3=, 398. commentary on, by Nathaniel of Bagdad, =3=, 442.
=Ecclesiasticus, the Book of=, by Jesus Sirach, =1=, 439-41. considered apocryphal, =2=, 344. translated into Greek, =2=, 359.
=Ecija=, the Jews of, persecuted, =4=, 170.
=Eck, Dr. John=, writes against the Jews, =4=, 546-7. accusations of, repeated by Luther, =4=, 548, 549, 550.
=Eden=, garden of, name applied to Paradise, =1=, 404.
=Edessa=, destroyed, =2=, 398. the Christians of, persecuted, =2=, 524. the Jews of, massacred, =2=, 599. taken by Nureddin, =3=, 349.
=Edict=, banishing the Jews from Spain, =4=, 347-8.
=Edict of Grace=, the, for Marranos, =4=, 315.