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History of the Byzantine Jews A Microcosmos in the Thousand Year Empire

History of the Byzantine Jews A Microcosmos in the Thousand Year Empire
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  • ISBN-13: 9780761836247
  • ISBN: 0761836241
  • Publication Date: 2007
  • Publisher: University Press of America, Incorporated

AUTHOR

Kohen, Elli

SUMMARY

The History of the Byzantine Jews explores the Jewish microcosmos in Byzantium. Under the Romans, Jews enjoyed the privileges of knighthood and nobility. Although these luxuries were significantly diminished under Theodosius II- whose wife, Eudoxia, was a judaizing Empress- and the Codex Justinianus, they remained a powerful entity in Byzantium. In comparison to the irredentist Samaritans and Paulicians, the Jews remained areligio licita (permitted religion) that tolerated and even protected by Imperial and Church authority. Their position in society even enabled the Jews to vie for increased power. The Byzantine Jews tried to play the game of power politics through their affiliation with Yemen's Jewish Himyarites, and ill-fated alliance with the Persian Sassanides, and finally through the colossal power of the Jewish Khazar Empire. In this living history of the Byzantine Jews, Author Elli Kohen attempts to revive the spirit of Moses of Crete, Procopius, Eusebius, Theophanes Continuatus, and medieval chroniclers such as Liutbrand, Villehardouin, and Benjamin of Tudela. Intended as a complementary text to other classics on Byzantine Jews, this new work emphasizes multicultural cooperation in the study of this time period.Kohen, Elli is the author of 'History of the Byzantine Jews A Microcosmos in the Thousand Year Empire', published 2007 under ISBN 9780761836247 and ISBN 0761836241.

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