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BL
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886912
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Eshel, Shay
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| Title & Author
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The concept of the elect nation in Byzantium /\ by Shay Eshel.
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| Publication Statement
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Leiden ;Boston :: Brill,, [2018]
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| Series Statement
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The Medieval Mediterranean Ser.
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1 online resource
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| ISBN
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9004363831
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: 9789004363830
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9004349472
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9789004349476
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Introduction -- The elect nation concept as part of the Byzantine response to the calamities of the seventh century -- The institutional adoption and use of the elect nation concept from Heraklios to Leo III -- The elect nation concept as an identity element of the embattled Byzantine society, seventh-ninth centuries -- The effect of the iconoclast controversy upon the Byzantine elect nation concept -- The Macedonian dynasty and the expanding empire, ninth-tenth centuries -- Two concepts of election, influence and competition : Byzantium and the Franks during the Crusades -- Summary and conclusions.
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"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"--
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Election (Theology)
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Church history-- Middle Ages.
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Election (Theology)-- History of doctrines.
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HISTORY-- Europe-- General.
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Jews-- Election, Doctrine of-- History of doctrines.
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Byzantine Empire, Church history.
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Byzantine Empire, History.
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Byzantine Empire.
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Europe, Macedonia.
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| Dewey Classification
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949.5/02
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DF550
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