Jews in Byzantium : dialectics of minority and majority cultures

Cover
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Series......Page 3
Title page
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CONTENTS......Page 6
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 11
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS......Page 14
(Colour Figures)......Page 18
INTRODUCTION......Page 50
PART I - SETTING THE STAGE......Page 64
CONFRONTING A CHRISTIAN EMPIRE: JEWISH LIFE AND CULTURE IN THE WORLD OF EARLY BYZANTIUM - Oded Irshai......Page 66
CONTINUITY AND DISCONTINUITY (641-1204) - Robert Bonfil......Page 114
SURVIVAL IN DECLINE: ROMANIOTE JEWRY POST-1204 - Steven Bowman......Page 150
CHRISTIANS AND JEWS IN BYZANTIUM: A LOVE-HATE RELATIONSHIP - Spyros N. Troianos......Page 182
THE LEGAL STATUS OF JEWS IN THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE - Amnon Linder......Page 198
THE JEWS IN THE BYZANTINE ECONOMY (SEVENTH TO MID-FIFTEENTH CENTURY) - David Jacoby......Page 268
JEWISH SURVIVAL IN LATE ANTIQUE ALEXANDRIA - Guy G. Stroumsa......Page 306
THE JEWS IN BYZANTINE SOUTHERN ITALY - Vera von Falkenhausen......Page 320
THE JEWS OF SLAVIA GRAECA: THE NORTHERN FRONTIER OF BYZANTINE JEWRY? - Alexander Kulik......Page 346
PART II - CULTURAL ENCOUNTERS AND TRANSMISSION OF KNOWLEDGE......Page 364
PIYYUT IN BYZANTIUM: A FEW REMARKS - Joseph Yahalom......Page 366
STYLE AS A CHRONOLOGICAL INDICATOR: ON THE RELATIVE DATING OF THE GOLAN SYNAGOGUES - Roni Amir......Page 386
THE GREEK BIBLE IN THE MEDIEVAL SYNAGOGUE - Nicholas de Lange......Page 420
JUDEO-GREEK OR GREEK SPOKEN BY JEWS? Cyril Aslanov......Page 434
CONSTRUCTING IDENTITY THROUGH ART: JEWISH ART AS A MINORITY CULTURE IN BYZANTIUM - Rina Talgam......Page 448
JUDAISM AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF BYZANTINE ART - Herbert L. Kessler......Page 504
"BY MEANS OF COLORS": A JUDEO-CHRISTIAN DIALOGUE IN BYZANTINE ICONOGRAPHY - Elisheva Revel-Neher......Page 550
FORMS AND FUNCTIONS OF ANTI-JEWISH POLEMICS: POLYMORPHY, POLYSEMY - Vincent Deroche......Page 584
THE PHYSIOGNOMY OF GREEK CONTRA IUDAEOS MANUSCRIPT BOOKS IN THE BYZANTINE ERA: A PRELIMINARY SURVEY - Patrick Andrist......Page 598
THE JUDAIZING CHRISTIANS OF BYZANTIUM: AN OBJECTIONABLE FORM OF SPIRITUALITY - Philippe Gardette......Page 636
ROMANOS THE MELODIST AND PALESTINIAN PIYYUT: SOCIOLINGUISTIC AND PRAGMATIC PERSPECTIVES - Cyril Aslanov......Page 662
EARLY HALAKHIC LITERATURE - Hillel I. Newman......Page 678
BYZANTIUM'S ROLE IN THE TRANSMISSION OF JEWISH KNOWLEDGE IN THE MIDDLE AGES: THE ATTITUDE TOWARD CIRCUMCISION - Micha Perry......Page 692
THE KABBALAH IN BYZANTIUM: PRELIMINARY REMARKS - Moshe Idel......Page 708
CULTURAL EXCHANGES BETWEEN JEWS AND CHRISTIANS IN THE PALAEOLOGAN PERIOD - Marie-Helene Congourdeau......Page 758
BYZANTINE KARAISM IN THE ELEVENTH TO FIFTEENTH CENTURIES - Golda Akhiezer......Page 772
PART III - IMAGES......Page 808
BARBARIANS OR HERETICS? JEWS AND ARABS IN THE MIND OF BYZANTIUM (FOURTH TO EIGHTH CENTURIES) - Guy G. Stroumsa......Page 810
IMAGES OF JEWS IN BYZANTINE CHRONICLES: A GENERAL SURVEY - Rivkah Fishman-Duker......Page 826
JEWS AND JUDAISM IN EARLY CHURCH HISTORIOGRAPHY: THE CASE OF EUSEBIUS OF CAESAREA (PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS AND EXAMPLES) - Oded Irshai......Page 848
CARNIVALESQUE AMBIVALENCE AND THE CHRISTIAN "OTHER" IN ARAMAIC POEMS FROM BYZANTINE PALESTINE - Ophir Muenz-Manor......Page 878
THE VIEW OF BYZANTINE JEWS IN ISLAMIC AND EASTERN CHRISTIAN SOURCES - Yossi Soffer......Page 894
IN SEARCH OF THE JEWS IN BYZANTINE LITERATURE - Vera von Falkenhausen......Page 920
CONVERTS IN BYZANTINE ITALY: LOCAL REPRESENTATIONS OF JEWISH-CHRISTIAN RIVALRY - Youval Rotman......Page 942
BYZANTINE-JEWISH ETHNOGRAPHY: A CONSIDERATION OF THE SEFER YOSIPPON IN LIGHT OF GERSON COHEN'S "ESAU AS SYMBOL IN EARLY MEDIEVAL THOUGHT" - Joshua Holo......Page 972
HISTORIOGRAPHY AMONG BYZANTINE JEWS: THE CASE OF SEFER YOSIPPON - Saskia Doenitz......Page 1000
REFRACTING CHRISTIAN TRUTHS THROUGH THE PRISM OF THE BIBLICAL FEMALE IN BYZANTINE ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS - Mati Meyer......Page 1018
INDEX OF NAMES......Page 1048
INDEX OF PLACES......Page 1055