Judaism and Imperial Ideology in Late Antiquity. - SILVERTSEV, A.M.,
KORTE INHOUD
This fascinating book explores the influence of Roman imperial ideology on the development of messianic themes in Judaism of the fifth through the eighth centuries C.E. Chapter 1 explores conceptual affinities between Byzantine imperial eschatology and eschatological motifs in rabbinic literature. The author shows that Jews developed their own supersessionist narrative that both internalized and inverted a traditional Christian Roman supersessionism (i.e., ?the Church has replaced Israel?). (...) In chapter 2, Sivertsev focuses on a particular eschatological scenario preserved in a seventh-century rabbinic work entitled ?The Signs of the Messiah? and analyzes its Byzantine ideological context. He argues that there are obvious similarities between the Christian and the Jewish legend of the last Roman emperor (...). Chapter 3 focuses on the motif of the mother of the Messiah, Hephzibah, as she is called in the seventh-century ?Book of Zerubabel?, in comparison with the role of the virgin Mary in Byzantine imper...
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