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1 online resource (1058 pages). |
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Jerusalem studies in religion and culture,
1570-078X ;
v. 14
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Jerusalem studies in religion and culture ; v. 14.
1570-078X
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| Contents |
Acknowledgments; List of Illustrations; Color Illustrations; Introduction; Part I Setting the Stage; Confronting a Christian Empire: Jewish Life and Culture in the World of Early Byzantium; Continuity and Discontinuity (641-1204); Survival in Decline: Romaniote Jewry Post-1204; Christians and Jews in Byzantium: A Love-Hate Relationship; The Legal Status of Jews in the Byzantine Empire; The Jews in the Byzantine Economy (Seventh to Mid-Fifteenth Century); Jewish Survival in Late Antique Alexandria; The Jews in Byzantine Southern Italy. |
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The Jews of Slavia Graeca: The Northern Frontier of Byzantine Jewry?Part II Cultural Encounters and Transmission of Knowledge; Piyyut in Byzantium: A Few Remarks; Style as a Chronological Indicator: On The Relative Dating of the Golan Synagogues; The Greek Bible in the Medieval Synagogue; Judeo-Greek or Greek Spoken by Jews?; Constructing Identity through Art: Jewish Art as a Minority Culture in Byzantium; Judaism and the Development of Byzantine Art; "By Means of Colors": A Judeo-Christian Dialogue in Byzantine Iconography; Forms and Functions of Anti-Jewish Polemics: Polymorphy, Polysémy. |
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The Physiognomy of Greek Contra Iudaeos Manuscript Books in the Byzantine Era: A Preliminary SurveyThe Judaizing Christians of Byzantium: An Objectionable Form of Spirituality; Romanos the Melodist and Palestinian Piyyut: Sociolinguistic and Pragmatic Perspectives; Early Halakhic Literature; Byzantium's Role in the Transmission of Jewish Knowledge in the Middle Ages: The Attitude toward Circumcision; The Kabbalah in Byzantium: Preliminary Remarks; Cultural Exchanges between Jews and Christians in the Palaeologan Period; Byzantine Karaism in the Eleventh to Fifteenth Centuries; Part III Images. |
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Barbarians or Heretics? Jews and Arabs in the Mind of Byzantium (Fourth to Eighth Centuries)Images of Jews in Byzantine Chronicles: A General Survey; Jews and Judaism in Early Church Historiography: The Case of Eusebius of Caesarea (Preliminary Observations and Examples); Carnivalesque Ambivalence and the Christian Other in Aramaic Poems from Byzantine Palestine; The View of Byzantine Jews in Islamic and Eastern Christian Sources; In Search of the Jews in Byzantine Literature; Converts in Byzantine Italy: Local Representations of Jewish-Christian Rivalry. |
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Byzantine-Jewish Ethnography: A Consideration of the Sefer Yosippon in Light of Gerson Cohen's "Esau as Symbol in Early Medieval Thought"Historiography among Byzantine Jews: The Case of Sefer Yosippon; Refracting Christian Truths through the Prism of the Biblical Female in Byzantine Illuminated Manuscripts; Index of Names; Index of Places. |
| Summary |
Byzantine Jews: Dialectics of Minority and Majority Cultures is the collective product of a three year research group convened under the auspices of Scholion: Interdisciplinary Research Center in Jewish Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The volume provides both a survey and an analysis of the social and cultural history of Byzantine Jewry from its inception until the fifteenth century, within the wider context of the Byzantine world. |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Jews -- Byzantine Empire -- History.
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Jews. |
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Byzantine Empire. |
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History. |
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Byzantine Empire -- Ethnic relations.
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Ethnic relations. |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Irsai, Oded.
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Stroumsa, Guy G.
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Talgam, Rina.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Bonfil, Robert. Jews in Byzantium : Dialectics of Minority and Majority Cultures. Leiden : BRILL, ©2011 9789004203556 |
| ISBN |
9789004216440 (electronic book) |
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9004216448 (electronic book) |
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1283310783 |
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9781283310789 |
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9789004203556 |
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9004203559 |
| Standard No. |
9786613310781 |
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10.1163/ej.9789004203556.i-1010 |
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