from byzantine to persian jerusalem: jewish perspectives and jewish/christian polemics
;Hagith Sivan
Fitoterapia2006Vol. 41pp. 277-306
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Abstract
Several piyyutim, the Hebrew liturgical poems of late ancient date, make reference to the Persian and then Arab conquests of the Holy Land, and can shed light on Jewish responses to the Byzantine losses, losses which some Christian authors sought to blame on the Jews.