‘It was made to appear to them so’: the crucifixion, Jews and Sasanian war propaganda in the Qur’ān

III COMPTES RENDUS - The Religion of the Nabataeans. A Conspectus

Decline and Fall of the Sasanian Empire: The Sasanian–Parthian Confederacy and the Arab Conquest of Iran, Parvaneh Pourshariati, London: I. B. Tauris, 2008, reprinted 2009, ISBN 13-978-1845116453, ...

Decline and Fall of the Sasanian Empire: The Sasanian–Parthian Confederacy and the Arab Conquest of Iran

The Throne of Adulis: Red Sea Wars on the Eve of Islam

Discourses against judaizing Christians

Defenders and Enemies of the True Cross: the Sasanian Conquest of Jerusalem in 614 and Byzantine Ideology of Anti-Persian Warfare (Veroefentlichungen zur Iranistik, Nr. 61), Yuri Stoyanov, Vienna: ...

Defenders and Enemies of the True Cross: the Sasanian Conquest of Jerusalem in 614 and Byzantine Ideology of Anti-Persian Warfare

This article surveys the evidence for and history of Jews and Judaism in Asia Minor with a special focus on the denigration and persecution of Jews by pagans and Christians in Asia Minor. The article argues that Jews thrived in this part of the Roman empire from the Hellenistic period until the Arab conquest and lived both in urban and rural settings in most parts of Asia Minor. Despite their flourishing, Jews had to deal with Anti-Semitic slander, denigration, and attacks from pagans and Christians. The situation worsened with the rise of Christianity to the official religion of the Roman Empire. In the 7th cent., increased anti-Semitism led to a decline of Judaism in Asia Minor. Before this time, despite legal and other persecutions, Jews emphasized and practiced their Judaism and despite a prohibition to the contrary Jews build new synagogues even in the century before the Arab conquest. Anti-Semitism in Asia Minor would thus not have blocked the construction of a synagogue in Limyra in this p...

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‘It was made to appear to them so’: the crucifixion, Jews and Sasanian war propaganda in the Qur’ān

Citations

III COMPTES RENDUS - The Religion of the Nabataeans. A Conspectus

Decline and Fall of the Sasanian Empire: The Sasanian–Parthian Confederacy and the Arab Conquest of Iran

The Throne of Adulis: Red Sea Wars on the Eve of Islam

Discourses against judaizing Christians

Defenders and Enemies of the True Cross: the Sasanian Conquest of Jerusalem in 614 and Byzantine Ideology of Anti-Persian Warfare

References

Jews in Ancient and Late Ancient Asia Minor between Acceptance and Rejection

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