Language:
French
Year of publication:
1986
Titel der Quelle:
Byzantion
Angaben zur Quelle:
56 (1986) 295-313
Keywords:
Antisemitism History To 500
Abstract:
The literary genre of the "Adversus Judaeos" treatises is an important historical source on relations between Christians and Jews. This genre of anti-Jewish polemic, whether expository, argumentative or invective, arose when the Church was competing with Judaism for new converts and ended with the Renaissance. Analyzes Justin Martyr's "Dialogue with Trypho" (150 CE), John Chrysostom's homilies (387 CE), and the anonymous "Trophes of Damascus" (681 CE), showing that they portray flourishing and influential Jewish communities in the Hellenistic eastern Mediterranean. While Justin's arguments attest to good Christian-Jewish relations and mutual knowledge, the latter two works are aggressively anti-Jewish, reflecting a period when many indecisive Eastern Christians were attracted to Judaism.
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