A. M. Sivertsev, Judaism and Imperial Ideology in Late Antiquity. Cambridge/New York 2011
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This book explores the influence of Roman imperialism on the
development of messianic themes in Judaism in the fifth through the eight
centuries CE. It pays special attention to the ways in which Roman imperial
ideology and imperial eschatology influenced Jewish representations of the
Messiah and messianic age. Topics addressed in the book include:
representations of the Messianic kingdom of Israel as a successor to the Roman
Empire, the theme of imperial renewal in Jewish eschatology and its Roman
parallels, representations of the emperor in late antique literature and art
and their influence on the representations of the Messiah, the mother of the
Messiah in late antique and Byzantine cultural contexts, and the figure of the
last Roman Emperor in Christian and Jewish tradition.
