Jews in Byzantium : dialectics of minority and majority cultures / edited by Robert Bonfil, Oded Irshai, Guy G. Stroumsa, Rina Talgam.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bonfil, Robert, editor.

Irshai, Oded, editor.

Stroumsa, Guy G., editor.

Talgam, Rina, editor.

Scholion--Interdisciplinary Research Center in Jewish Studies.

Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Mandel Institute for Jewish Studies

Series:

Jerusalem studies in religion and culture ; v. 14.

Jerusalem studies in religion and culture, 1570-078X ; v. 14

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Byzantine Empire--History.

Byzantine Empire--Ethnic relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1058 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In the ever increasing volume of Byzantine Studies in recent years there seems to be one very apparent void, namely, the history and culture of the Byzantine Jewry, its presence and impact on the surrounding convoluted Byzantine world between Late Antiquity until the conquest of Byzantium (1453). With the now classic but dated studies by Joshua Starr and Andrew Sharf, the collective volume at hand is an attempt to somewhat fill in this void. The articles assembled in this volume are penned by leading scholars in the field. They present bird's eye views of the cultural history of the Jewish Byzantine minority, alongside a wide array of surveys and in-depth studies of various topics. These topics pertain to the dialectics of the religious, literary, economic and visual representation world of this alien minority within its surrounding Byzantine hegemonic world.

Contents:

pt. 1. Setting the stage

pt. 2. Cultural encounters and transmission of knowledge

pt. 3. Images.

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.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1-283-31078-3

9786613310781

90-04-21644-8

OCLC:

758335914

Publisher Number:

10.1163/ej.9789004203556.i-1010 DOI