Roman Defeat, Christian Response, and the Literary Construction of the Jew / / David M. Olster.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
• VerfasserIn: Olster, David M.,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2015]; ©1994
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: The Middle Ages Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (224 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Abbreviations --; Introduction --; 1. Politics and Theology: The Anachronism of Modern Scholarship --; 2. Christianity: The Imperial Religion --; 3. Crisis and Response: The "New" Rhetoric of George of Pisidia --; 4. A Tale of Two Cities --; 5. Christians Without an Empire: The Patriarch Sophronius --; 6. "We Are Still Better Than You": The Syrian Dialogues --; 7. Gregentius and Herbanus: The New Christian Patria --; 8. A Jewish-Christian Dialogue: The Exception to the Rule --; Conclusion --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781512809558; 9783110442526
• DOI: 10.9783/9781512809558
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: David M. Olster.

Olster explores Byzantine Christian reactions to the catastrophic Persian and Arab invasions, challenging long-held assumptions that divided "religious" from "secular" literature and exempted religion from contemporary social, political, and intellectual discourse.