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Late Antique Jewish and Christian Travelogues: Religious Aspects and Cultural Backgrounds

Late Antique Jewish and Christian Travelogues: Religious Aspects and Cultural Backgrounds

Kiperwasser, Reuven
Kofsky, Aryeh
Ruzer, Serge

Hardcover

Series: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - Tension, Transmission, Tr, Book 27

Comparative ReligionJudaism

ISBN10: 3111564681
ISBN13: 9783111564685
Publisher: de Gruyter
Published: Dec 16 2024
Pages: 180
Weight: 1.01
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Focusing on travel narratives as a setting for spelling out both cultural exchanges and identity building, the present volume maps a variety of strategies employed in travelogues by Christians and Jews in the late antique Roman East.
The first part sheds light on the shared cultural background - folkloric or mythic - reflected in late antique Jewish and Christian sea-travel stories, and the various attempts to adapt it to a specific religious agenda. While the comparative analysis of the sources from two textual communities emphasizes their different religious agendas, it also allows for restoring patterns of the broader background with which they converse. The second part highlights Christian perceptions of the Land of Israel in missionary enterprises and in the eschatological visions.

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