Focusing on travel narratives as a setting for spelling out both cultural exchanges and identity building, the present volume maps a variety of strategies employed in travelogues by Christians and Jews in the late antique Roman East.
The first part sheds light on the shared cultural background - folkloric or mythic - reflected in late antique Jewish and Christian sea-travel stories, and the various attempts to adapt it to a specific religious agenda. While the comparative analysis of the sources from two textual communities emphasizes their different religious agendas, it also allows for restoring patterns of the broader background with which they converse. The second part highlights Christian perceptions of the Land of Israel in missionary enterprises and in the eschatological visions.
The travelogues offer a window on the interplay between shared inheritance and new agendas within the dialectical development of religious traditions in Late Antiquity.
| ISBN: | 9783111564685 |
| Publication date: | 16th December 2024 |
| Author: | Reuven Kipervasser, Arieh Kofsky, Serge Ruzer |
| Publisher: | De Gruyter |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 180 pages |
| Series: | Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - Tension, Transmission, Transformation |
| Genres: |
Comparative religion |
Focusing on travel narratives as a setting for spelling out both cultural exchanges and identity building, the present volume maps a variety of strategies employed in travelogues by Christians and Jews in the late antique Roman East.
The first part sheds light on the shared cultural background - folkloric or mythic - reflected in late antique Jewish and Christian sea-travel stories, and the various attempts to adapt it to a specific religious agenda. While the comparative analysis of the sources from two textual communities emphasizes their different religious agendas, it also allows for restoring patterns of the broader background with which they converse. The second part highlights Christian perceptions of the Land of Israel in missionary enterprises and in the eschatological visions.
The travelogues offer a window on the interplay between shared inheritance and new agendas within the dialectical development of religious traditions in Late Antiquity.
Late Antique Jewish and Christian Travelogues features in the following genres: Rabbinic literature
Late Antique Jewish and Christian Travelogues is available in Hardback
Late Antique Jewish and Christian Travelogues was written by Reuven Kipervasser, Arieh Kofsky, Serge Ruzer and published by De Gruyter
Late Antique Jewish and Christian Travelogues has 180 pages
Yes it is part of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - Tension, Transmission, Transformation series