"The first English-language monograph on a significant yet often-neglected Latin Christian history from late antiquity (4th century CE), this book introduces a little-known text and shows how Classical culture and Bible heroes helped Christians conceptualize Jewish history in late antiquity"--
"The first English-language monograph on a significant yet often-neglected Latin Christian history from late antiquity (4th century CE), this book introduces a little-known text and shows how Classical culture and Bible heroes helped Christians conceptualize Jewish history in late antiquity"--
Carson Bay is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Jewish Studies at the University of Bern, Switzerland.
Inhaltsangabe
1. On the destruction of Jerusalem: Christian, Classical, Biblical, Josephan 2. Hebrew vs. Jew: identity and differentiation in De Excidio 3. Abraham, ethnography, exemplarity, and oratory at De Excidio 5.41.2 and 5.53.1 4. Exemplarity and national decline at De Excidio 5.2.1 5. Jewish and Christian martyrdom at De Excidio 3.2 and 5.22 6. King David as Christian-classical exemplum in Pseudo-Hegesippus 7. Elisha, disaster, and extended exemplarity in De Excidio 8. A classical world of Biblical Exempla: suicide and patriotism in De Excidio 3.16-17 9. A Christian world of Hebrew Exempla: war and faith in De Excidio 5.15-16. 10. Conclusion.
1. On the destruction of Jerusalem: Christian, Classical, Biblical, Josephan 2. Hebrew vs. Jew: identity and differentiation in De Excidio 3. Abraham, ethnography, exemplarity, and oratory at De Excidio 5.41.2 and 5.53.1 4. Exemplarity and national decline at De Excidio 5.2.1 5. Jewish and Christian martyrdom at De Excidio 3.2 and 5.22 6. King David as Christian-classical exemplum in Pseudo-Hegesippus 7. Elisha, disaster, and extended exemplarity in De Excidio 8. A classical world of Biblical Exempla: suicide and patriotism in De Excidio 3.16-17 9. A Christian world of Hebrew Exempla: war and faith in De Excidio 5.15-16. 10. Conclusion.
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