Language:
French
Year of publication:
2007
Titel der Quelle:
Byzantinoslavica
Angaben zur Quelle:
65 (2007) 229-274
Keywords:
Jews
;
Judaism Relations
;
Christianity
;
Christianity and other religions Judaism
;
Christianity and other religions Judaism To 1500
;
History
;
Christianity and antisemitism History To 1500
Abstract:
Examines how Judaism was dealt with in popular and theological Orthodox Christian writings in Byzantium in the 13th- to mid-15th centuries. Judaism occupied a place between dependence and stereotypes. The popular texts reflect everyday contact between Christians and Jews, but also Christian suspicion of "blasphemous" Jews. The theological texts reflect the crisis in the Byzantine Empire during the Palaiologos dynasty, which caused a redefinition of Orthodox theology as a response to the Roman Catholic and Islamic threat. In the polemical literature which developed from the 13th century on, strict limitations on contact with Jews and Judaism is advocated as a response to the risk of heresy. The word "Jew" came to denote anyone who cut himself off from the Orthodox faith. Some 15th century Orthodox texts claim that the Jews of the Bible have nothing to do with with Byzantine Jews, and deny the spiritual legitimacy of contemporary Judaism. The Orthodox Church is now identified with Israel, and Judaism is reduced to a form of imposture.
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