Remains of the Jews by Andrew S Jacobs | sku-41267351

Andrew S Jacobs's Remains of the Jews: The Holy Land and Christian Empire in Late Antiquity is a hardcover listed under Religion & Religious Studies Books as sku-41267351. Part of the Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Rel series, it examines how Christian authors wrote about Jews in the holy land during the rise of Christian Empire, 300-550 C.E.

Jacobs uses cultural studies, particularly postcolonial criticism, to read those writings as colonial texts. He considers how they presented Christians as powerful and how Jews may have developed a posture of resistance. The book revisits biblical interpretation, histories, sermons and letters to examine power, resistance and religious identity in the later Roman Empire.