Severus of Minorca: Letter on the Conversion of the Jews (Oxford Early Christian Studies) - Hardcover

Severo; Severus Of Minorca

 
9780198267645: Severus of Minorca: Letter on the Conversion of the Jews (Oxford Early Christian Studies)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0198267649 ISBN 13: 9780198267645
Verlag: OUP Oxford, 1996

Inhaltsangabe

This book provides an edited text, introduction, and the first English translation of a central document in the history of religious coercion in late antiquity: Severus of Minorca's Letter on the Conversion of the Jews. The Letter describes the forced conversion of the Jews of Minorca to Christianity in AD 418, allegedly under the influence of St Stephen's relics. Although ostensibly a hagiographical work, the Letter is fundamentally an anti-Jewish document, and therein lies its interest for historians. It offers a fascinating perspective on Jewish-Christian relations in a Mediterranean town, and on the motives for religious intolerance in the unsettled ages of the Germanic invasions. In addition, its wealth of information about a diaspora Jewish community in the western empire makes it unique among the surviving sources.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Scott Bradbury is Associate Professor of Classical Languages and Literatures at Smith College, Massachusetts.

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This book provides an edited text, introduction, and the first English translation of a central document in the history of religious coercion in late antiquity: Severus of Minorca's Letter on the Conversion of the Jews. The Letter describes the forced conversion of the Jews of Minorca to Christianity in AD 418, allegedly under the influence of St. Stephen's relics. Although ostensibly a hagiographical work, the Letter is fundamentally an anti-Jewish document, and therein lies its interest for historians. It offers a fascinating perspective on Jewish-Christian relations in a Mediterranean town, and on the motives for religious intolerance in the unsettled age of the Germanic invasions. In addition, its wealth of information about a diaspora Jewish community in the Western empire makes it unique among the surviving sources.

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Verlag
OUP Oxford
Erscheinungsdatum
1996
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0198267649
ISBN 13 
9780198267645
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Anzahl der Seiten
160
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