@Book{1017717028,
author="Eshel, Shay",
title="concept of the elect nation in Byzantium",
series="Medicine in the medieval Mediterranean volume 113",
year="2018",
publisher="Brill",
address="Leiden",
keywords="Election (Theology); History of doctrines; Jews; Election, Doctrine of; Church history; Byzantine Empire; History; Macedonia",
abstract="``In The Concept of the Elect Nation in Byzantium, Shay Eshel shows how the Old Testament model of the ancient Israelites was a prominent factor in the evolution of Roman-Byzantine national awareness between the 7th and 13th centuries. The Byzantines' interpretation of the 7th century epic events as manifestations of God's wrath enabled them to incorporate the events into a paradigm which they now embraced: the Old Testament paradigm of the Israelite Elect Nation's complex relationship with God, a cyclic relation of sin, wrath, punishment, repentance and salvation. The Elect Nation concept enabled the Byzantines to express the shift in their collective identity toward a shrunken, yet more clearly defined, national awareness''--",
note="by Shay Eshel",
isbn="9789004363830",
doi="10.1163/9789004363830",
url="http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/books/9789004363830",
url="https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004363830",
language="English"
}