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Roman Defeat, Christian Response, and the Literary Construction of the Jew / David M. Olster.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: The Middle Ages SeriesPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©1994Description: 1 online resource (224 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780812231526
  • 9781512809558
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 949.5013
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Politics and Theology: The Anachronism of Modern Scholarship -- 2. Christianity: The Imperial Religion -- 3. Crisis and Response: The "New" Rhetoric of George of Pisidia -- 4. A Tale of Two Cities -- 5. Christians Without an Empire: The Patriarch Sophronius -- 6. "We Are Still Better Than You": The Syrian Dialogues -- 7. Gregentius and Herbanus: The New Christian Patria -- 8. A Jewish-Christian Dialogue: The Exception to the Rule -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Olster explores Byzantine Christian reactions to the catastrophic Persian and Arab invasions, challenging long-held assumptions that divided "religious" from "secular" literature and exempted religion from contemporary social, political, and intellectual discourse.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9781512809558

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Politics and Theology: The Anachronism of Modern Scholarship -- 2. Christianity: The Imperial Religion -- 3. Crisis and Response: The "New" Rhetoric of George of Pisidia -- 4. A Tale of Two Cities -- 5. Christians Without an Empire: The Patriarch Sophronius -- 6. "We Are Still Better Than You": The Syrian Dialogues -- 7. Gregentius and Herbanus: The New Christian Patria -- 8. A Jewish-Christian Dialogue: The Exception to the Rule -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index

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Olster explores Byzantine Christian reactions to the catastrophic Persian and Arab invasions, challenging long-held assumptions that divided "religious" from "secular" literature and exempted religion from contemporary social, political, and intellectual discourse.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Aug 2020)

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