Severus of Minorca: Letter on the Conversion of the Jews
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Product details:
- Publisher Clarendon Press
- Date of Publication 29 August 1996
- ISBN 9780198267645
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages154 pages
- Size 225x143x17 mm
- Weight 303 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This book provides a Latin text and the first English translation of an important document in the history of the persecution of the Jews in the Christian Roman Empire. It offers a fascinating perspective on the religious and social life of a diaspora Jewish community, their relations with local Christians, and the campaign of intimidation and terror which eventually led to their conversion.
MoreLong description:
This book provides an edited text, introduction, and the first English translation of a central document in the history of religious coercion in late antiquity: Severus of Minorca's Letter on the Conversion of the Jews. The Letter describes the forced conversion of the Jews of Minorca to Christianity in AD 418, allegedly under the influence of St Stephen's relics. Although ostensibly a hagiographical work, the Letter is fundamentally an anti-Jewish document, and therein lies its interest for historians. It offers a fascinating perspective on Jewish-Christian relations in a Mediterranean town, and on the motives for religious intolerance in the unsettled ages of the Germanic invasions. In addition, its wealth of information about a diaspora Jewish community in the western empire makes it unique among the surviving sources.
Bradbury's English version of the Latin text is accurate and lucid, and he achieves a commendable brevity in his endnotes.
