Includes bibliographical references (pages [407]-443) and indexes.
Contents:
The absence of evidence as the evidence of absence -- "Five hundred and forty souls were added to the church": the Letter of Severus of Minorca on the conversion of the Jews, early fifth century? -- "You shall have freedom from care...during my reign.": Letter 51, the Emperor Julian to the collectivity of the Jews, (perhaps spurious) (dated) March 1, 363: From Constantine to the death of Julian, 312-363 -- "The sect of the Jews is prohibited by no law": CTh 16.8.9, Theodosios I at Constantinople, September 23, 393: Valentinian, Gratian, and Theodosios I, 363-395 -- "Their synagogues shall remain in their accustomed peace": CTh 16.8.12, Arkadios at Constantinople, June 17, 397: Arkadios, Honorius, and Gamaliel VI, 395-408 -- "No synagogue shall be constructed from now on": CTh 16.8.25, Theodosios II, at Constantinople, February 15, 423: Honorius and Theodosios II, 408-423 -- "We deny to the Jews and to the pagani, the right to practice legal advocacy and to serve in the state service.": Sirmondian Constitution 6, Galla Placidia, in the name of five-year-old Valentinian and Theodosios II, Summer 425: Theodosios II in his majesty, 423-450 -- "We do not grant that their synagogues shall stand, but want them to be converted in form to churches": Justinian, Novella 37, August 1, 535: in the aftermath of Theodosios II in the East, 450-604 -- "In what has been allowed to them, [the Jews] should not sustain any prejudice": Letter 8.25, Gregory the Great, to Victor, bishop of Palermo, June 598: in the aftermath of Theodosios II in the West, 450-604 -- "here rests Faustina, aged fourteen years, five months... Two apostoli and two rebbites sang lamentations": Latin epitaph from Venosa, Italy, early sixth century: the price of (Christian) orthodoxy.
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