Jews in Byzantium

Dialectics of Minority and Majority Cultures
Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-90-04-20355-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 14, 144 Seiten, Format (B × H): 166 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 1887 g

Reihe: Jerusalem Studies in Religion and Culture

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Bonfil, Robert

Irshai, Oded

Stroumsa, Guy G.

Talgam, Rina

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contributors include: Golda Ahiezer, Roni Amir, Patrick Andrist, Cyril Aslanov, Robert Bonfil, Marie-Hélène Congourdeau, Nicholas de Lange, Vincent Déroche, Saskia Dönitz, Rivka Duker-Fishman, Philippe Gardette, Joshua Holo, Moshe Idel, Oded Irshai, David Jacoby, Herbert L. Kessler, Alexander Kulik, Amnon Linder, Matti Meyer, Ophir Münz-Manor, Hillel I. Neumann, Micha Perry, Elisheva Revel-Neher, Youval Rotman, Yossi Soffer, Guy G. Stroumsa, Rina Talgam, Spyros N. Troianos, Vera von Falkenhausen, Josef Yahalom.

Über Autor(innen)

Robert Bonfil is Professor Emeritus of Medieval and Renaissance Jewish History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has published extensively on Medieval and Renaissance Jewish History in Italy.

Oded Irshai, Ph.D., Lectures in the Department of the History of the Jewish People and Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has published extensively on the Judeo-Christian dialogue and polemics in Late Antiquity.

Guy G. Stroumsa, Professor of the Study of the Abrahamic Religions and Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, and Martin Buber Professor of Comparative Religion, Emeritus, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.

Rina Talgam, Ph.D., Head of the Department of Art History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her research focuses on the mutual influences between paganism, Judaism, Christianity and Islam in Late Antiquity.