Jews in Byzantium : Dialectics of Minority and Majority Cultures.

Acknowledgments; List of Illustrations; Color Illustrations; Introduction; Part I Setting the Stage; Confronting a Christian Empire: Jewish Life and Culture in the World of Early Byzantium; Continuity and Discontinuity (641-1204); Survival in Decline: Romaniote Jewry Post-1204; Christians and Jews in Byzantium: A Love-Hate Relationship; The Legal Status of Jews in the Byzantine Empire; The Jews in the Byzantine Economy (Seventh to Mid-Fifteenth Century); Jewish Survival in Late Antique Alexandria; The Jews in Byzantine Southern Italy.

The Jews of Slavia Graeca: The Northern Frontier of Byzantine Jewry?Part II Cultural Encounters and Transmission of Knowledge; Piyyut in Byzantium: A Few Remarks; Style as a Chronological Indicator: On The Relative Dating of the Golan Synagogues; The Greek Bible in the Medieval Synagogue; Judeo-Greek or Greek Spoken by Jews?; Constructing Identity through Art: Jewish Art as a Minority Culture in Byzantium; Judaism and the Development of Byzantine Art; "By Means of Colors": A Judeo-Christian Dialogue in Byzantine Iconography; Forms and Functions of Anti-Jewish Polemics: Polymorphy, Polysémy.

The Physiognomy of Greek Contra Iudaeos Manuscript Books in the Byzantine Era: A Preliminary SurveyThe Judaizing Christians of Byzantium: An Objectionable Form of Spirituality; Romanos the Melodist and Palestinian Piyyut: Sociolinguistic and Pragmatic Perspectives; Early Halakhic Literature; Byzantium's Role in the Transmission of Jewish Knowledge in the Middle Ages: The Attitude toward Circumcision; The Kabbalah in Byzantium: Preliminary Remarks; Cultural Exchanges between Jews and Christians in the Palaeologan Period; Byzantine Karaism in the Eleventh to Fifteenth Centuries; Part III Images.

Barbarians or Heretics? Jews and Arabs in the Mind of Byzantium (Fourth to Eighth Centuries)Images of Jews in Byzantine Chronicles: A General Survey; Jews and Judaism in Early Church Historiography: The Case of Eusebius of Caesarea (Preliminary Observations and Examples); Carnivalesque Ambivalence and the Christian Other in Aramaic Poems from Byzantine Palestine; The View of Byzantine Jews in Islamic and Eastern Christian Sources; In Search of the Jews in Byzantine Literature; Converts in Byzantine Italy: Local Representations of Jewish-Christian Rivalry.

Byzantine-Jewish Ethnography: A Consideration of the Sefer Yosippon in Light of Gerson Cohen's "Esau as Symbol in Early Medieval Thought"Historiography among Byzantine Jews: The Case of Sefer Yosippon; Refracting Christian Truths through the Prism of the Biblical Female in Byzantine Illuminated Manuscripts; Index of Names; Index of Places.

Byzantine Jews: Dialectics of Minority and Majority Cultures is the collective product of a three year research group convened under the auspices of Scholion: Interdisciplinary Research Center in Jewish Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The volume provides both a survey and an analysis of the social and cultural history of Byzantine Jewry from its inception until the fifteenth century, within the wider context of the Byzantine world.

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