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7 - Antisemitism in Byzantium, 4th–7th Centuries

from Part I - The Classical Period

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 May 2022

By
Steven B. Bowman
Edited by
Steven Katz
Steven Katz
Affiliation:
Boston University
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Summary

Jewish status as citizens of the Roman Empire since 212 CE devolved during the three centuries from Constantine to Heraklios through political, legal, religious, social, and economic restrictions and suffered from mob pressures resulting in periodic pogroms. A complex Christian program led and implemented a state policy to convert the Jews to the dominant Christian religion in order to achieve the eschaton via the return of the crucified messiah, whom the majority now worshipped as God incarnate.

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Roman lawpriestspreacherspolemicspersecutions
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The Cambridge Companion to Antisemitism , pp. 118 - 134
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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Stoyanov, Y., “Apoctalypticizing Warfare from Political Theology to Imperial Eschatology in Seventh and Early Eighth-Century Byzantium,” in The Armenian Apocalyptic Tradition, ed. Bardakjian, K. B. and La Porta, S. (Leiden, 2014), 379–433. Gives further analysis of propaganda during Zoroastrian and Muslim invasions.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Van Bekkum, W., “Jewish Messianic Expectations in the Age of Heraclius,” in The Reign of Heraclius (610–641), 95–112.Google Scholar

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