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Title

History of the Byzantine Jews : a microcosmos in the thousand year empire / Elli Kohen.

Author

Kohen, Elli.

Publication

Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, [2007], ©2007.

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Details

Description

xiv, 268 pages; 24 cm

Subjects

• Byzantine Empire > Ethnic relations
• Jews > Byzantine Empire > History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction : a microscosmos -- Ch. 1. From Hellenization to Graecization - from the historical encounter of Jews and Hellenes to the encounter of Jews and Byzantine orthodoxes. An overview -- Ch. 2. The expulsion from the copper market -- Ch. 3. The great Samaritan revolt -- Ch. 4. Echoes from Solomonic Grandeur and the Queen of Sheba : turmoil over the Red Sea -- Ch. 5. The Judeo-Persian alliance and anticlimax -- Ch. 6. Dahiyya-Al-Kahina the Judeo-Berber warrior queen : North African epic or mythical symbol -- Ch. 7. An overview : Byzantine law and the Jews -- Ch. 8. Another overview : the Byzantine church and the Jews -- Ch. 9. The Messianic dream and a false Messiah -- Ch. 10. The new Phoenicians : towards a Jewish maritime empire (!) and the new Pax Romana : Thessalonica and its Hinterland -- Ch. 11. Bulgarian interlude : the missed opportunity of a Judeo-Bulgarian empire next to the Khazars -- Ch. 12. Jew under suspicion of collusion with the iconoclasts, but the imperial mantle rests on the shoulders of a Phrygian suspected of being a Judaizer -- Ch. 13. Byzantine Judaizers : the Athinganoi -- Ch. 14. Another Judaizing heresy : the Paulician rebellion : the confrontation between thegnostic gospel and Byzantine orthodoxy -- Ch. 15. Purple terror and blood in the unleavened bread -- Ch. 16. Saint Cyrillus at the Khazar court -- Ch. 17. An example of ecumenism : the friendship between Saint Nilos and the Jewish physician Sabbetai Donollo -- Ch. 18. The historiography of a Byzantine Jewish family in Apulia and the sages of Oria : the chronicle of Ahimmaz -- Ch. 19. Postscripts to the codex Justinianus : Leo III's ecloga -- Ch. 20. Constantine porphyrogenetus, the emperor-scholar speaks about the Jews and the Khazars -- Ch. 21. Khazar power politics on behalf of Byzantine Jews -- Ch. 22. The power politics of Hasdai Ibn Shaprut, Chief Minister ST the court of Abd Al Rahman III the Caliph of Cordoba -- Ch. 23. Vladimir : the conversion of a barbarian -- Ch. 24. Passage from Ishmael to Edo -- Ch. 25. Turbulent years -- Ch. 26. Byzantine Jewish history in the Makhtebanuth Zahbne, the chronology of Gregory Abu'l Faraj, the son of Aaron, the Hebrew physician, commonly known as Bar Hebraeus : a Jacobite point-of-view -- Ch. 27. Anna Commena keeps silence on the Jews -- Ch. 28. The Mishawites, the lost sectarians -- Ch. 29. The history of the Jewish quarter in Constantinople -- Ch. 30. Judeo-Byzantine intermezzo : the era of cooperation -- Ch. 31. Rerouting of a crusade and a visit of crusader barons to the Juerie the Jewish quarter -- Ch. 32. John III Vatatzes, the Nicean Herod -- Ch. 33. Jewish self-government -- Ch. 34. Jews between the emperor and the clergy -- Ch. 35. Giornale Dell' Assedio Di Constantinopoli 1543 (from Nicola Barbaro, a survivor of the Venetian Colony) : a diary about the Constantinople -- Ch. 36. Jewish luminaries in Byzantium -- Ch. 37. Jewish doctor in the empire of Trebizond -- Ch. 38. Later day Judaizers -- Conclusion : towards a dialogue and beyond.

ISBN

• 0761836233
• 9780761836230
• 0761836241
• 9780761836247

LCCN

2006937936

OCLC

• ocm85480377
• SCSB-5316935

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries