Within the small area where Byzantine and Jewish Studies overlap, the tenth-century Vision of Daniel has been a source of perennial fascination. This Hebrew text of forty-seven lines, found in the Cairo Genizah and today held in the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York, speaks of a succession of emperors, from Michael III to Romanos…
My paper aims to investigate and analyse the burial practices of Jews in the Balkans and the Aegean during the early Byzantine period. I aim to establish how these practices reflected the daily life and identity of Jews in Byzantine society. The scope of the paper is defined temporally and spatially. It begins in the…
Collective identities in antiquity are often regarded by scholars as attended by a certain ethnonym or appellative, which may express the collective self- consciousness of a particular group. Modern research has often dealt with the meanings of the ethnonym Ἕλλην in the New Testament, the literature of Late Antiquity and the Byzantine Empire. Though most…