Judaism and Imperial Ideology in Late Antiquity (Hardback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Judaism and Imperial Ideology in Late Antiquity Explores the influence of Roman imperialism on the development of Messianic themes in Judaism.
Full description- Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Published: 30 June 2011
- Format: Hardback 256 pages
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- Categories: Ancient History: To C 500 CE | History Of Religion | Judaism | Judaism: Theology
- ISBN 13: 9781107009080 ISBN 10: 1107009081
- Sales rank: 617,707
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Full description for Judaism and Imperial Ideology in Late Antiquity
This book explores the influence of Roman imperialism on the development of Messianic themes in Judaism in the fifth through the eight centuries CE. It pays special attention to the ways in which Roman imperial ideology and imperial eschatology influenced Jewish representations of the Messiah and Messianic age. Topics addressed in the book include: representations of the Messianic kingdom of Israel as a successor to the Roman Empire, the theme of imperial renewal in Jewish eschatology and its Roman parallels, representations of the emperor in late antique literature and art and their influence on the representations of the Messiah, the mother of the Messiah in late antique and Byzantine cultural contexts, and the figure of the last Roman Emperor in Christian and Jewish tradition.
