Abstract

The aim of this presentation is to review the archaeological and epigraphic evidence concerning the organisation and everyday life of the Jewish communities in the Balkans and the Aegean between the 5th and 7th centuries. I aim to establish the place the Jews occupied in the stratigraphy of Byzantine society during this period and how the social and political changes in this society influenced their communal and everyday life.

Short CV

Alexander Panayotov was a research associate based at the Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge. His research interests are in the history of the Jews in the Roman and Byzantine Empire and in Jewish epigraphy and archaeology. He has edited and published Jewish inscriptions from the Balkans and the Aegean in Inscriptiones Judaicae Orientis, Band I: Eastern Europe, (2004). He is also co-editor of the first volume of More Old Testament Pseudepigrapha (2013).

Alexander Panayotov's project at AIAS.

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