Remains of the Jews

by Jacobs, Andrew S.

• ISBN13: 9780804747059
• ISBN10: 0804747059
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-02-01
• Publisher: Stanford Univ Pr

Summary

Remains of the Jewsstudies 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 Jewsreexamines 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.

Author Biography

Andrew S. Jacobs is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the University of California, Riverside.

Table of Contents

Abbreviations	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Introduction: Holy Land, Empire, and Jews	p. 1
Knowledge
"Full Knowledge": Jews and the Totality of Christian Empire	p. 21
"Captive Judaea": The Production of Jewish Knowledge	p. 56
Power
"A Province like Paradise": Jews in Christian Travel Writing	p. 103
"This Exalted City": Christian Jerusalem and Its Jews	p. 139
Conclusions: Reconsidering Jewish-Christian Relations	p. 200
Bibliography	p. 211
Index	p. 245
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