The Mediterranean Diaspora in Late Antiquity
What Christianity Cost the Jews
Ross Shepard Kraemer
Table of Contents
Preface
Abbreviations
Chapter 1: The Absence of Evidence as the Evidence of Absence
Chapter 2: "Five hundred and forty souls were added to Christ"
The Letter of Severus of Minorca on the Conversion of the Jews, early 5th century?
Chapter 3: "You Shall Have Freedom from Care...During My Reign"
Letter 51, The Emperor Julian to the Collectivity of the Jews, March 1, 363 (perhaps spurious)
Chapter 4: "The Sect of the Jews is Prohibited by no law"
Th 16.8.9, Theodosios I, at Constantinople, Sept 23, 393
Valentinian, Gratian and Theodosios I (395)
Chapter 5: "Their synagogues shall remain in their accustomed peace"
CTh 16.8.12, Arkadios at Constantinople, June 17, 397
Honorius, Arkadios and Valentinian II, 395-408
Chapter 6: "No Synagogues shall be constructed from now on"
CTh 16.8.25 Theodosios II, at Constantinople, February 15, 423
Honorius and Theodosios II, 408-423
Chapter 7: "We deny to the Jews and to the pagani, the right to practice law and to serve in the state service."
Sirmondian Constitution 6, Galla Placidia in the name of 5 year old Valentinian, and Theodosios II, Summer
425
Theodosios II in his majority, 423-50
Chapter 8: "We do not grant that their synagogues shall stand, but want them to be converted in form to churches."
Novella 37, Justinian, August 1, 535
In the Aftermath of Theodosios in the East, 450-604
Chapter 9: "In what has been allowed to them, [the Jews] should not sustain any prejudice."
Gregory the Great, to Victor, bishop of Palermo, Letters Book 8. no. 25, June 598
In the Aftermath of Theodosios in the West, 450-604
Chapter 10: "Here rests Faustina, aged 14 years, 5 months...Two apostoli and two rebbites sang lamentations..."
Latin epitaph from Venosa, Italy, JIWE 1.86, Late 5th-early 6th century, The Price of (Christian) Orthodoxy
Epilogue
Bibliography
Indices