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Title

Jews in Byzantium : dialectics of minority and majority cultures / edited by Robert Bonfil ... [et al.].

Publication

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.

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Additional Authors

Bonfil, Robert.

Description

xvi, 1010 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. (some col.); 25 cm.

Series Statement

Jerusalem studies in religion and culture ; v. 14

Uniform Title

Jerusalem studies in religion and culture ; v. 14.

Subjects

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

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

Confronting a Christian empire : Jewish life and culture in the world of early Byzantium / Oded Irshai -- Continuity and discontinuity (641-1204) / Robert Bonfil -- Survival in decline : Romaniote Jewry post-1204 / Steven Bowman -- Christians and Jews in Byzantium : a love-hate relationship / Spyros N. Troianos -- The legal status of Jews in the Byzantine Empire / Amnon Linder -- The Jews in the Byzantine economy (seventh to mid-fifteenth century) / David Jacoby -- Jewish survival in late antique Alexandria / Guy G. Stroumsa -- The Jews in Byzantine southern Italy / Vera von Falkenhausen -- The Jews of Slavia Graeca : the northern frontier of Byzantine Jewry? / Alexander Kulik -- Piyyut in Byzantium : a few remarks / Joseph Yahalom -- Style as a chronological indicator : on the relative dating of the Golan synagogues / Roni Amir -- The Greek Bible in the medieval synagogue / Nicholas de Lange -- Judeo-Greek or Greek spoken by Jews? / Cyril Aslanov -- Constructing identity through art : Jewish art as a minority culture in Byzantium / Rina Talgam -- Judaism and the development of Byzantine art / Herbert L. Kessler -- "By means of colors" : a Judeo-Christian dialogue in Byzantine iconography / Elisheva Revel-Neher -- Forms and functions of anti-Jewish polemics : polymorphy, polysémy / Vincent Déroche -- The physiognomy of Greek Contra Iudaeos manuscript books in the Byzantine era : a preliminary survey / Patrick Andrist -- The Judaizing Christians of Byzantium : an objectionable form of spirituality / Philippe Gardette -- Romanos the Melodist and Palestinian piyyut : sociolinguistic and pragmatic perspectives / Cyril Aslanov -- Early halakhic literature / Hillel I. Newman -- Byzantium's role in the transmission of Jewish knowledge in the Middle Ages : the attitude toward circumcision / Micha Perry -- The kabbalah in Byzantium : preliminary remarks / Moshe Idel -- Cultural exchanges between Jews and Christians in the palaeologan period / Marie-Hélène Congourdeau -- Byzantine Karaism in the eleventh to fifteenth centuries / Golda Akhiezer -- Barbarians or heretics? Jews and Arabs in the mind of Byzantium (fourth to eighth centuries) / Guy G. Stroumsa -- Images of Jews in Byzantine chronicles : a general survey / Rivkah Fishman-Duker -- Jews and Judaism in early church historiography : the case of Eusebius of Caesarea (preliminary observations and examples) / Oded Irshai -- Carnivalesque ambivalence and the Christian other in Aramaic poems from Byzantine Palestine / Ophir Münz-Manor -- The view of Byzantine Jews in Islamic and Eastern Christian sources / Yossi Soffer -- In search of the Jews in Byzantine literature / Vera von Falkenhausen -- Converts in Byzantine Italy : local representations of Jewish-Christian rivalry / Youval Rotman -- Byzantine-Jewish ethnography : a consideration of the Sefer Yosippon in light of Gerson Cohen's "Esau as symbol in early medieval thought" / Joshua Holo -- Historiography among Byzantine Jews : the case of Sefer Yosippon / Saskia Dönitz -- Refracting Christian truths through the prism of the biblical female in Byzantine illuminated manuscripts / Mati Meyer.

Call Number

*PXM 12-1523

ISBN

• 9789004203556 (hardback : alk. paper)
• 9004203559 (hardback : alk. paper)

LCCN

2011012626

OCLC

708648758

Title

Jews in Byzantium : dialectics of minority and majority cultures / edited by Robert Bonfil ... [et al.].

Imprint

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.

Series

Jerusalem studies in religion and culture ; v. 14

Jerusalem studies in religion and culture ; v. 14.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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Added Author

Bonfil, Robert.

Research Call Number

*PXM 12-1523