Letter on the conversion of the Jews / Severus of Minorca ; edited and translated by Scott Bradbury.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Severus, Bishop of Minorca, active 5th century.

Contributor:

Bradbury, Scott.

Series:

Oxford early Christian texts

Language:

English

Latin

Subjects (All):

Severus, Bishop of Minorca, active 5th century--Correspondence.

Severus.

Severus, Bishop of Minorca, active 5th century.

Bishops--Spain--Minorca--Correspondence--Early works to 1800.

Bishops.

Christian converts from Judaism--Spain--Minorca--Early works to 1800.

Christian converts from Judaism.

Christianity and other religions.

Judaism.

Relations.

Christianity.

Spain--Minorca.

Judaism--Relations--Christianity--Early works to 1800.

Christianity and other religions--Judaism--Early works to 1800.

Minorca (Spain)--Religion--Early works to 1800.

Minorca (Spain).

Genre:

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

x, 144 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.

Language Note:

English and Latin.

Summary:

This book provides an edited text, introduction, and translation of a central document in the history of religious coercion in late antiquity: Severus of Minorca's Letter on the Conversion of the Jews. The Letter describes the forced conversion of the Jews of Minorca to Christianity in AD 418. It offers a fascinating perspective on Jewish-Christian relations in a Mediterranean town, and on the motives for religious intolerance. In addition, its wealth of information about a diaspora Jewish community in the western empire makes it unique among surviving sources.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

0198267649

OCLC:

34282340