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Severus of Minorca: Letter on the Conversion of the Jews (Hardcover)
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Severus of Minorca: Letter on the Conversion of the Jews (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Early Christian Texts
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This book provides an edited text, introduction, and the first
English translation of a central document in the history of
religious coercion in late antiquity: Severus of Minorca's Letter
on the Conversion of the Jews. The Letter describes the forced
conversion of the Jews of Minorca to Christianity in AD 418,
allegedly under the influence of St. Stephen's relics. Although
ostensibly a hagiographical work, the Letter is fundamentally an
anti-Jewish document, and therein lies its interest for historians.
It offers a fascinating perspective on Jewish-Christian relations
in a Mediterranean town, and on the motives for religious
intolerance in the unsettled age of the Germanic invasions. In
addition, its wealth of information about a diaspora Jewish
community in the Western empire makes it unique among the surviving
sources.
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