From Byzantine to Persian Jerusalem: Jewish Perspectives and Jewish/Christian Polemics

<span style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;">Several piyyutim, the Hebrew liturgical poems of late ancient date, make reference to the Persian and then Arab conquests of the Holy Land, and can shed light on Jewish responses to the Byzantine losses, losses which some Christian...

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Main Author: Hagith Sivan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Duke University 2006-01-01
Series:Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies
Online Access:http://grbs.library.duke.edu/article/view/2081