Language:
English
Year of publication:
1996
Titel der Quelle:
Revue des Etudes Juives
Angaben zur Quelle:
155,3-4 (1996) 447-459
Keywords:
Quodvultdeus,
;
Antisemitism History
;
Jews History 5th century
;
Christianity and antisemitism History To 1500
;
Carthage (Extinct city) Politics and government
Abstract:
Quodvultdeus, the last Catholic bishop of Carthage prior to the Vandal invasion in 439, continued the anti-Judaic themes of Augustine and the patristic tradition already prevalent in North Africa. He opposed Jewish influence on Christians and associated Judaism with Christian heresies such as Arianism and Pelagianism. During the Vandal period the Jews appear to have enjoyed religious freedom, which ended with the Byzantine conquest of North Africa in the early 6th century. Catholic Christianity once again became the dominant religion; Jews were oppressed even more than before, as a punishment for their support of the Vandals. In 535 the Jews were expelled from their synagogues, which were turned into churches, and they had to undergo mandatory conversion.
DOI:
10.2143/REJ.155.3.519386
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