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Remains of the Jews: The Andrew S. Jacobs |
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Remains of the Jews studies the rise of
Christian Empire in late antiquity (300-550 C.E.) through the dense and
complex manner in which Christian authors wrote about Jews in the charged
space of the "holy land". The book employs contemporary cultural
studies, particularly postcolonial criticism, to read Christian writings
about holy land Jews as colonial writings. These writings created a cultural
context in which Christians viewed themselves as powerful - and in which,
perhaps, Jews were able to construct a posture of resistance to this new
Christian Empire. Remains of the Jews reexamines familiar
types of literature - biblical interpretation, histories, sermons, letters -
from a new perspective in order to understand how power and resistance shaped
religious identities in the later Roman Empire. Andrew S. Jacobs is Assistant Professor
of Religious Studies at the University of California, Riverside. |
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