by hadassah | Apr 9, 2008 | Judaism under Christian Rome
This description of the Persian conquest of Jerusalem in 614 C.E. shows that by this time, most of the inhabitants of the city were Christians. The terrible destruction wreaked by the Persians did not secure the city for them, and it soon fell again to Byzantine rule....
by hadassah | Apr 9, 2008 | Judaism under Christian Rome
Again the ancient sources reflect the dubious effect of the forced conversions of the Samaritans who became Christians after their failed rebellion. In this year (110), when the Samaritans revolted and created for themselves an emperor and Caesar, Irenaeus the son of...
by hadassah | Apr 9, 2008 | Judaism under Christian Rome
This description of the first Samaritan rebellion by Procopius of Caesarea, a Byzantine historian, was written between 559 and 560 C.E. This account highlights the religious nature of the struggle, supporting the notion that Christian persecution of the Samaritans led...
by hadassah | Apr 9, 2008 | Judaism under Christian Rome
The Chronicon Paschale is an anonymous Byzantine Greek chronology from the early 7th century which presents an account of world history up to that time from a Christian viewpoint. It provides a rather one-sided account of the Samaritan revolt against Christian...
by hadassah | Apr 9, 2008 | Judaism under Christian Rome
The Babylonian Talmud includes a collection of stories about the relationship between Rabbi Judah the Prince and a supposed Roman emperor named Antoninus. Scholars have debated whether to identify this Antoninus with one of the emperors of the Severan dynasty, perhaps...
by hadassah | Apr 9, 2008 | Judaism under Christian Rome
Lawrence H. Schiffman, From Text to Tradition, Ktav Publishing House, Hoboken, NJ, 1991. From the third century B.C.E. a Greco-Roman, Hellenistic Judaism had existed alongside the Hebrew-speaking Judaism of Palestine. This Greek-speaking Judaism had come to terms with...
