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1 online resource (400 pages) |
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Jewish culture and contexts |
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Jewish culture and contexts.
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| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: Rethinking Romanness, Provincializing Christendom; Part I. Rabbis and Other Roman Sub-Elites; 1. The Afterlives of the Torah's Ethnic Language: The Sifra and Clement on Leviticus 18.1-5; 2. The Kingdom of Edessa and the Creation of a Christian Aristocracy; 3. Law and Imperial Idioms: Rabbinic Legalism in a Roman World; 4. The Law of Moses and the Jews: Rabbis, Ethnic Marking, and Romanization; Part II. Christianization and Other |
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5. There is No Place like Home: Rabbinic Responses to the Christianization of Palestine6. Between Gaza and Minorca: The (Un)Making of Minorities in Late Antiquity; 7. Christian Historiographers' Reflections on Jewish-Christian Violence in Fifth-Century Alexandria; 8. Narrating Salvation: Verbal Sacrifices in Late Antique Liturgical Poetry; 9. Israelite Kingship, Christian Rome, and the Jewish Imperial Imagination: Midrashic Precursors to the Medieval "Throne of Solomon"; Part III. Continuity and Rupture ; 10. Chains of Tradition from Avot to the 'Avodah Piyutim |
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11. Change and Continuity in Late Legal Papyri from Palaestina Tertia: Nomos Hellênikos and Ethos Rômaikon12. The Representation of the Temple and Jerusalem in Jewish and Christian Houses of Prayer in the Holy Land in Late Antiquity; 13. Roman Christianity and the Post-Roman West: The Social Correlates of the Contra Iudaeos Tradition; Notes; Select Bibliography of Secondary Sources; List of Contributors; Index; Acknowledgments |
| Summary |
In histories of ancient Jews and Judaism, the Roman Empire looms large. For all the attention to the Jewish Revolt and other conflicts, however, there has been less concern for situating Jews within Roman imperial contexts; just as Jews are frequently dismissed as atypical by scholars of Roman history, so Rome remains invisible in many studies of rabbinic and other Jewish sources written under Roman rule.Jews, Christians, and the Roman Empire brings Jewish perspectives to bear on long-standing debates concerning Romanization, Christianization, and late antiquity. Focusing on the third to sixth centuries, it draws together specialists in Jewish and Christian history, law, literature, poetry, and art. Perspectives from rabbinic and patristic sources are juxtaposed with evidence from piyyutim, documentary papyri, and synagogue and church mosaics. Through these case studies, contributors highlight paradoxes, subtleties, and ironies of Romanness and imperial power.Contributors: William Adler, Beth A. Berkowitz, Ra'anan Boustan, Hannah M. Cotton, Natalie B. Dohrmann, Paula Fredriksen, Oded Irshai, Hayim Lapin, Joshua Levinson, Ophir Münz-Manor, Annette Yoshiko Reed, Hagith Sivan, Michael D. Swartz, Rina Talgam |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 3, 2013) |
| Subject |
Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
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Judaism -- History -- Talmudic period, 10-425.
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HISTORY -- Ancient -- Rome.
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Church history -- Primitive and early church.
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Judaism -- Talmudic period.
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Religion.
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Rome -- Religion.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh96009771
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Rome (Empire)
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Reed, Annette Yoshiko, 1973-
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Dohrmann, Natalie B
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| ISBN |
9780812208573 |
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0812208579 |
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