05544cam a2200709Mi 4500 ocn758335914 OCoLC 20200709055429.0 m d cr |n| 111024s2011 ne o 000 0 eng d EBLCP eng EBLCP CDX OCLCQ N$T 759907807 9789004216440 (electronic bk.) 9004216448 (electronic bk.) 9789004203556 9004203559 9786613310781 (OCoLC)758335914 (OCoLC)759907807 399866 (N$T) 331078 MIL mm----- DS135 .M43 J49 2011 SOC 002010 bisacsh SOC 031000 bisacsh SOC 020000 bisacsh 305.892 305.892404950902 N$TA Bonfil, Robert. Jews in Byzantium [electronic resource] : Dialectics of Minority and Majority Cultures. Leiden : BRILL, 2011. 1 online resource (1058 p.) Jerusalem studies in religion and culture Acknowledgments; List of Illustrations; Color Illustrations; Introduction; Part I Setting the Stage; Confronting a Christian Empire: Jewish Life and Culture in the World of Early Byzantium; Continuity and Discontinuity (641-1204); Survival in Decline: Romaniote Jewry Post-1204; Christians and Jews in Byzantium: A Love-Hate Relationship; The Legal Status of Jews in the Byzantine Empire; The Jews in the Byzantine Economy (Seventh to Mid-Fifteenth Century); Jewish Survival in Late Antique Alexandria; The Jews in Byzantine Southern Italy. The Jews of Slavia Graeca: The Northern Frontier of Byzantine Jewry?Part II Cultural Encounters and Transmission of Knowledge; Piyyut in Byzantium: A Few Remarks; Style as a Chronological Indicator: On The Relative Dating of the Golan Synagogues; The Greek Bible in the Medieval Synagogue; Judeo-Greek or Greek Spoken by Jews?; Constructing Identity through Art: Jewish Art as a Minority Culture in Byzantium; Judaism and the Development of Byzantine Art; "By Means of Colors": A Judeo-Christian Dialogue in Byzantine Iconography; Forms and Functions of Anti-Jewish Polemics: Polymorphy, Polysémy. The Physiognomy of Greek Contra Iudaeos Manuscript Books in the Byzantine Era: A Preliminary SurveyThe Judaizing Christians of Byzantium: An Objectionable Form of Spirituality; Romanos the Melodist and Palestinian Piyyut: Sociolinguistic and Pragmatic Perspectives; Early Halakhic Literature; Byzantium's Role in the Transmission of Jewish Knowledge in the Middle Ages: The Attitude toward Circumcision; The Kabbalah in Byzantium: Preliminary Remarks; Cultural Exchanges between Jews and Christians in the Palaeologan Period; Byzantine Karaism in the Eleventh to Fifteenth Centuries; Part III Images. Barbarians or Heretics? Jews and Arabs in the Mind of Byzantium (Fourth to Eighth Centuries)Images of Jews in Byzantine Chronicles: A General Survey; Jews and Judaism in Early Church Historiography: The Case of Eusebius of Caesarea (Preliminary Observations and Examples); Carnivalesque Ambivalence and the Christian Other in Aramaic Poems from Byzantine Palestine; The View of Byzantine Jews in Islamic and Eastern Christian Sources; In Search of the Jews in Byzantine Literature; Converts in Byzantine Italy: Local Representations of Jewish-Christian Rivalry. Byzantine-Jewish Ethnography: A Consideration of the Sefer Yosippon in Light of Gerson Cohen's "Esau as Symbol in Early Medieval Thought"Historiography among Byzantine Jews: The Case of Sefer Yosippon; Refracting Christian Truths through the Prism of the Biblical Female in Byzantine Illuminated Manuscripts; Index of Names; Index of Places. Byzantine Jews: Dialectics of Minority and Majority Cultures is the collective product of a three year research group convened under the auspices of Scholion: Interdisciplinary Research Center in Jewish Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The volume provides both a survey and an analysis of the social and cultural history of Byzantine Jewry from its inception until the fifteenth century, within the wider context of the Byzantine world. Description based on print version record. Jews Byzantine Empire History. Byzantine Empire Ethnic relations. Byzantine Empire Ethnic relations. Byzantine Empire. Jews Byzantine Empire History. Jews. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural bisacsh SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations bisacsh SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies bisacsh Electronic books. Irshai, Oded. Stroumsa, Guy G. Talgam, Rina. Print version: Bonfil, Robert Jews in Byzantium : Dialectics of Minority and Majority Cultures Leiden : BRILL, c2011 9789004203556 Ebook Library http://public.eblib.com/EBLPublic/PublicView.do?ptiID=793247 MyiLibrary http://www.myilibrary.com?id=331078 EBSCOhost http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=399866 EBL - Ebook Library EBLB EBL793247 Coutts Information Services COUT 19836963 213.00 GBP cpp1723AUTO 02 N$T 50686 50686