Roman Defeat, Christian Response, and the Literary Construction of the Jew /
Olster explores Byzantine Christian reactions to the catastrophic Persian and Arab invasions, challenging long-held assumptions that divided "religious" from "secular" literature and exempted religion from contemporary social, political, and intellectual discourse.
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook | 
| Idioma: | Inglés | 
| Publicado: | Philadelphia :
        
      University of Pennsylvania Press,    
    
      1994. | 
| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE. | 
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo | 
                Tabla de Contenidos: 
            
                  - Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1. Politics and Theology: The Anachronism of Modern Scholarship
- 2. Christianity: The Imperial Religion
- 3. Crisis and Response: The "New" Rhetoric of George of Pisidia
- 4. A Tale of Two Cities
- 5. Christians Without an Empire: The Patriarch Sophronius
- 6. "We Are Still Better Than You": The Syrian Dialogues
- 7. Gregentius and Herbanus: The New Christian Patria
- 8. A Jewish-Christian Dialogue: The Exception to the Rule
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
 


