Biblical Heroes and Classical Culture in Christian Late Antiquity - The Historiography, Exemplarity, and Anti-Judaism of Pseudo-Hegesippus

"The first English-language monograph on a significant yet often-neglected Latin Christian history from late antiquity (4th century CE), this book introduces a little-known text and shows how Classical culture and Bible heroes helped Christians conceptualize Jewish history in late antiquity"--

List of contents

1. On the destruction of Jerusalem: Christian, Classical, Biblical, Josephan; 2. Hebrew vs. Jew: identity and differentiation in De Excidio; 3. Abraham, ethnography, exemplarity, and oratory at De Excidio 5.41.2 and 5.53.1; 4. Exemplarity and national decline at De Excidio 5.2.1; 5. Jewish and Christian martyrdom at De Excidio 3.2 and 5.22; 6. King David as Christian-classical exemplum in Pseudo-Hegesippus; 7. Elisha, disaster, and extended exemplarity in De Excidio; 8. A classical world of Biblical Exempla: suicide and patriotism in De Excidio 3.16-17; 9. A Christian world of Hebrew Exempla: war and faith in De Excidio 5.15-16. 10. Conclusion.

About the author

Carson Bay is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Jewish Studies at the University of Bern, Switzerland.

Summary

The first English-language monograph on a significant yet often-neglected Latin Christian history from late antiquity (4th century CE), this book introduces a little-known text and shows how Classical culture and Bible heroes helped Christians conceptualize Jewish history in late antiquity.

Product details

• Authors: Carson Bay, Carson (Universitat Bern Bay
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2022
• EAN: 9781009268561
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0926856-1
• No. of pages: 452
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Latin, Social & cultural history, Historiography, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Social and cultural history, Middle Eastern history, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, BCE to c 500 CE, RELIGION / Biblical Studies / New Testament / General, BCE period – Protohistory