From Byzantine to Persian Jerusalem: Jewish Perspectives and Jewish/Christian Polemics

Authors

  • Hagith Sivan

Abstract

Several piyyutim, the Hebrew liturgical poems of late ancient date, make reference to the Persian and then Arab conquests of the Holy Land, and can shed light on Jewish responses to the Byzantine losses, losses which some Christian authors sought to blame on the Jews.

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Published

2000-09-08

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