Ross Shepard Kraemer

The Mediterranean Diaspora in Late Antiquity

What Christianity Cost the Jews

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Produktbeschreibung

The Mediterranean Diaspora in Late Antiquity examines the fate of Greek and Latin-spreaking Jews living in the Mediterranean diaspora after the Roman emperor Constantine threw his patronage to the emerging orthodox (Nicene) Christian churches.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 520
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. März 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 163mm x 43mm
• Gewicht: 726g
• ISBN-13: 9780190222277
• ISBN-10: 0190222271
• Artikelnr.: 56925023

Autorenporträt

Ross Shepard Kraemer is Professor Emerita of Religious Studies and Judaic Studies at Brown University, where she specialized in early Christianity and other religions of the Greco-Roman Mediterranean, including ancient Judaism. She holds an M.A. and a Ph.D. from Princeton University, and a B.A. from Smith College. Her many publications have focused particularly on gender and women's religions in the Greco-Roman Mediterranean, and on aspects of Jews and Judaism in the late antique Mediterranean diaspora.

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface * Abbreviations * Chapter 1: The Absence of Evidence as the Evidence of Absence * Chapter 2: "Five hundred and forty souls were added to Christ" * The Letter of Severus of Minorca on the Conversion of the Jews
early 5th century? * Chapter 3: "You Shall Have Freedom from Care...During My Reign" * Letter 51
The Emperor Julian to the Collectivity of the Jews
March 1
363 (perhaps spurious) * Chapter 4: "The Sect of the Jews is Prohibited by no law" * Th 16.8.9
Theodosios I
at Constantinople
Sept 23
393 * Valentinian
Gratian and Theodosios I (395) * Chapter 5: "Their synagogues shall remain in their accustomed peace" * CTh 16.8.12
Arkadios at Constantinople
June 17
397 * Honorius
Arkadios and Valentinian II
395-408 * Chapter 6: "No Synagogues shall be constructed from now on" * CTh 16.8.25 Theodosios II
at Constantinople
February 15
423 * Honorius and Theodosios II
408-423 * Chapter 7: "We deny to the Jews and to the pagani
the right to practice law and to serve in the state service." * Sirmondian Constitution 6
Galla Placidia in the name of 5 year old Valentinian
and Theodosios II
Summer * 425 * Theodosios II in his majority
423-50 * Chapter 8: "We do not grant that their synagogues shall stand
but want them to be converted in form to churches." * Novella 37
Justinian
August 1
535 * In the Aftermath of Theodosios in the East
450-604 * Chapter 9: "In what has been allowed to them
[the Jews] should not sustain any prejudice." * Gregory the Great
to Victor
bishop of Palermo
Letters Book 8. no. 25
June 598 * In the Aftermath of Theodosios in the West
450-604 * Chapter 10: "Here rests Faustina
aged 14 years
5 months...Two apostoli and two rebbites sang lamentations..." * Latin epitaph from Venosa
Italy
JIWE 1.86
Late 5th-early 6th century
The Price of (Christian) Orthodoxy * Epilogue * Bibliography * Indices