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Chapter Four, 'Language and Literature', surveys the culture of the Byzantine Jews. Bowman insists that they enjoyed a double heritage, from Palestinian rabbinism and from Hellenistic Judaism. As he rightly points out, the emphasis of the culture was far more biblical than halakhic, and the strong mystical and apocalyptic tradition suggests a link with ancient Palestine. What might have been brought out more clearly are the similarities (and the differences) between Jewish and Christian Byzantine culture, and also the relationship between Byzantine Jewish intellectuals and their confreres in other parts of the world. Bowman makes good use of the evidence of colophons in Byzantine Hebrew manuscripts: this is a line of approach that could be developed further, as could the study of the character and contents of Byzantine Hebrew manuscripts as primary evidence of Byzantine Jewish culture. Bowman also insists, correctly, on the important place of Greek language in Byzantine Jewish life. Here (as perhaps elsewhere) his emphasis on the material evidence prevents him from exploring fully some more speculative questions-in this case such questions as whether the Byzantine Jews read and stu

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Author

Nicholas de Lange

Published

1987

Language

EN

Field

Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)