The Concept of the Elect Nation in Byzantium

Shay Eshel (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

236 Seiten

2018
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-34947-6 (ISBN)

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In The Concept of the Elect Nation in Byzantium, Shay Eshel shows how the Old Testament model of the ancient Israelites was a prominent factor in the evolution of Roman-Byzantine national awareness between the 7th and 13th centuries. The Byzantines' interpretation of the 7th century epic events as manifestations of God's wrath enabled them to incorporate the events into a paradigm which they now embraced: the Old Testament paradigm of the Israelite Elect Nation's complex relationship with God, a cyclic relation of sin, wrath, punishment, repentance and salvation. The Elect Nation concept enabled the Byzantines to express the shift in their collective identity toward a shrunken, yet more clearly defined, national awareness.

Shay Eshel, Ph.D., The Hebrew University and the National Library of Israel, is a Byzantinist and a translator. His Hebrew translation of Michael Psellos' Chronographia (Magness and Carmel, 2015), is the first complete Hebrew translation of a medieval Byzantine source.

Erscheinungsdatum	07.01.2018
Reihe/Serie	The Medieval Mediterranean ; 113
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	509 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	90-04-34947-2 / 9004349472
ISBN-13	978-90-04-34947-6 / 9789004349476
Zustand	Neuware