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• Influence of Old Testament – Unlike Roman predecessors Byzantine rulers no longer believed that they rules the entire world – ruled only the important part Orthodox Byzantium – The New Israel various attempts to accentuate the influence of the Old Testament in post-Justianic laws of Leo III influenced by moses – this change led to a more defensive, introverted outlook (Whittow)

• Link earthquake 726 and other natural disasters to Old Testament punishment

• Iconoclasm as a symptom and a cause of the changes in the Byzantine empire

• IMPORTANCE ISLAM – pressure new monotheistic religion stirred the ideological debate, Islamic triumphs early 8th century forced blame of seemingly weak and ineffective icons

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