%0 Book
%T concept of the elect nation in Byzantium
%A Eshel, Shay
%S Medicine in the medieval Mediterranean volume 113
%D 2018
%I Brill
%C Leiden
%@ 9789004363830
%G English
%F 1017717028
%O by Shay Eshel
%X "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"--
%L NH 9150
%K Election (Theology)
%K History of doctrines
%K Jews
%K Election, Doctrine of
%K Church history
%K Byzantine Empire
%K History
%K Macedonia
%9 theses
%9 Text
%9 Hochschulschrift
%R 10.1163/9789004363830
%U http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/books/9789004363830
%U https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004363830