Remains of the Jews - 9780804747059

Remains of the JewsThe Holy Land and Christian Empire in Late Antiquity\nAuthor(s): Andrew S. Jacobs\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Stanford University Press, United States\nImprint: Stanford University Press\nISBN-13: 9780804747059, 978-0804747059\nSynopsis\nRemains of the Jews studies the rise of Christian Empire in late antiquity [tel] [url] through the dense and complex manner in which Christian authors wrote about Jews in the charged space of the \""holy land.\"" The book employs contemporary cultural studies, particularly postcolonial criticism, to read Christian writings about holy land Jews as colonial writings. These writings created a cultural context in which Christians viewed themselves as powerfuland in which, perhaps, Jews were able to construct a posture of resistance to this new Christian Empire. Remains of the Jews reexamines familiar types of literaturebiblical interpretation, histories, sermons, lettersfrom a new perspective in order to understand how power and resist.