TY  - BOOK
AU  - Olster,David M.
TI  - Roman Defeat, Christian Response, and the Literary Construction of the Jew
T2  - The Middle Ages Series
SN  - 9780812231526
U1  - 949.5013 
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - Philadelphia : 
PB  - University of Pennsylvania Press, 
KW  - Cultural Studies
KW  - Jewish Studies
KW  - Literature
KW  - Medieval and Renaissance Studies
KW  - Religion
KW  - Religious Studies
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.9783/9781512809558
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781512809558
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