TY  - BOOK
AU  - Eshel, Shay
PY  - 2018
DA  - 2018//
TI  - concept of the elect nation in Byzantium
T3  - Medicine in the medieval Mediterranean volume 113
PB  - Brill
CY  - Leiden
KW  - Election (Theology)
KW  - History of doctrines
KW  - Jews
KW  - Election, Doctrine of
KW  - Church history
KW  - Byzantine Empire
KW  - History
KW  - Macedonia
AB  - "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"--
SN  - 9789004363830
UR  - http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/books/9789004363830
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004363830
DO  - 10.1163/9789004363830
LA  - English
N1  - by Shay Eshel
ID  - 1017717028
ER  -