Antiquity
Legal persecutions of Justinian
529-553·Empire byzantin
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the Code prohibits Jewish testimony against Christians and the construction of synagogues; Novella 146 regulates Torah reading and forbids the teaching of the Mishna
Justinian takes up and hardens the Theodosian legacy. The Code of 529 denies Jewish testimony any value against a Christian and confirms the prohibition on building synagogues; the emperor then intervenes in religious life itself. Novella 146, promulgated in 553, regulates the language in which the Torah may be read in the synagogue and proscribes the teaching of the deuterosis, that is, of the Mishna.
It is the first time that a Christian power claims to legislate on the content of Jewish study. In the Byzantine Empire, this intrusion accompanies a broader policy of religious unification, from which the Samaritans and the last pagans also suffer.
- Period :
- Antiquity
- Type :
- Persecution
- Region :
- Near and Middle East
- Country :
- Empire byzantin
*Corpus iuris civilis*, Novelle CXLVI ; Amnon Linder, *The Jews in the Legal Sources of the Early Middle Ages*.