Remains of the Jews: The Holy Land and Christian Empire in Late Antiquity

ISBN-13: 9780804747059 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 264 str.

Andrew S. Jacobs

Opis

Remains of the Jews studies the rise of Christian Empire in late antiquity (300-550 C.E.) through the dense and complex manner in which Christian authors wrote about Jews in the charged space of the -holy land.- The book employs contemporary cultural studies, particularly postcolonial criticism, to read Christian writings about holy land Jews as colonial writings. These writings created a cultural context in which Christians viewed themselves as powerful-and in which, perhaps, Jews were able to construct a posture of resistance to this new Christian Empire. Remains of the Jews reexamines familiar types of literature-biblical interpretation, histories, sermons, letters-from a new perspective in order to understand how power and resistance shaped religious identities in the later Roman Empire.