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Severus of Minorca: Letter on the Conversion of the Jews

Severus of Minorca: Letter on the Conversion of the Jews

Hardcover

Series: Oxford Early Christian Texts

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ISBN10: 0198267649
ISBN13: 9780198267645
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: Oct 24 1996
Pages: 154
Weight: 0.73
Height: 0.65 Width: 5.72 Depth: 8.82
Language: English
This book provides an edited text, introduction, and 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. It offers a fascinating perspective on Jewish-Christian relations in a Mediterranean town, and on the motives for religious intolerance. In addition, its wealth of information about a diaspora Jewish community in the western empire makes it unique among surviving sources.

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