βThe Most Beautiful Jewesses in the Land
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Andrew S. Jacobs
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Article
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2002
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Elsevier Science
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English
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This essay examines the ways in which Jews were encoded into the holy land travel literature of the Christian Roman Empire (fourth through sixth centuries) as a means of naturalising and authenticating new modes of Christian, imperial power. Postcolonial criticism is used to analyse pilgrimage texts