Religion can be used as a superficial construct to sequester and segregate communities of disparate religious identities. This stems from the belief that difference procures a need for alienating those of ambivalent religious identities and to suppose them as the “other.” This disposition constructs troubling interpretations of religions and often are used as a rationalization to commit treacherous acts of violence against communities whose religious identities differ from those of the perpetrators. Such accounts of violence against the “other” are prevalent within Jewish history. Accounts of these happenings by Philo of Alexandria in In Flaccus and by Solomon bar Samson in his description of the massacres in Mainz, examine the interaction
