Nathan Wachtel is Professor Emeritus at the College de France and author of numerous books, including Gods and Vampires: Return to Chipaya and The Vision of the Vanquished: The Spanish Conquest of Peru Through Indian Eyes, 1530-1570. Nikki Halpern is an independent scholar and translator based in France. Yosef Kaplan is Bernard Cherrick Professor of the History of the Jewish People at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Foreword
-Yosef Kaplan

Introduction: Marranism and Modernity
Chapter 1. Juan Vicente's Sanbenito
Chapter 2. Heaven Face to Face: Francisco Maldonado de Silva
Chapter 3. "They Spoke of the Things of the Law of Moses": Manuel Bautista Perez
Chapter 4. "Remember the Mother of the Maccabees!": Regarding Leonor Nuñez
Chapter 5. "May Everyone Be What He Is": Francisco Botello and Maria de Zarate
Chapter 6. "The Law of the Name Received from the Ancients": Fernando de Medina
Chapter 7. "Moses, Son of Queen Esther": Theresa Paes de Jesus
Chapter 8. "For in This Time All Is Lies, and All Is Truth": João Thomas de Castro and António José da Silva
Conclusion: Faith, Memory, Forgetting

Epilogue: "Five Hundred Years of Hunger": Returning
Finale: Three Poems by Odmar Pinheiro Braga

Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments

By Nathan Wachtel. Translated by Nikki Halpern. Foreword by Yosef Kaplan