Jews In The Roman World

Author : Michael Grant
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2011-12-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781780222813

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Jews In The Roman World by Michael Grant Pdf

In describing the triangular relationship among the Jews, the Romans and the Greeks, Michael Grant treats one of the most significant themes in world history. Unlike almost all the other subject nations of the Roman empire, the Jews have survived and have maintained a religious and cultural identity that is substantially unchanged. They provide a unique bridge with the ancient world and can bring us into peculiarly close and intimate contact with life in the Roman empire. This book embraces the period in which the Jewish religion assumed virtually its final form, and in which Jews launched their two heroic, but disastrous revolts against Roman rule. This was, moreover, the time when Judaism gave birth to Christianity. Within a century after the death of Jesus, his followers had become completely independent of Judaism. Michael Grant describes the grandeur of the great multiracial Roman empire, beneath whose rule these stirring and unique developments took place.

Author : Martin Goodman
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004153097

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Judaism in the Roman World by Martin Goodman Pdf

These collected studies, previously published in diverse places between 1990 and 2006, discuss important and controversial issues in the study of the development of Judaism in the Roman world from the first century C.E. to the fifth.

Author : Natalie B. Dohrmann,Annette Yoshiko Reed
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812208573

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Jews, Christians, and the Roman Empire by Natalie B. Dohrmann,Annette Yoshiko Reed Pdf

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.

Author : Peter Schäfer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134403172

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The History of the Jews in the Greco-Roman World by Peter Schäfer Pdf

The History of the Jews in the Greco-Roman World examines Judaism in Palestine throughout the Hellenistic period, from Alexander the Great's conquest in 334BC to its capture by the Arabs in AD 636. Under the Greek, Roman and finally Christian supremacy which Hellenism brought, Judaism developed far beyond its biblical origins into a form which was to influence European history from the Middle Ages to the present day. The book focuses particularly on the social, economic and religious concerns of this period, and the political status of the Jews as both active agents and passive victims of history. The author provides a straightforward chronological survey of this important period through analysis and interpretation of the existing sources. With its accessible style and explanation of technical terms, the book provides a useful introduction to students and anybody with an interest in post-biblical Judaism.

Author : Hagith Sivan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107090170

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Jewish Childhood in the Roman World by Hagith Sivan Pdf

The first full treatment of Jewish childhood in the Roman world. Explores the lives of minors both inside and outside the home.

Author : Naomi Janowitz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134633678

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Magic in the Roman World by Naomi Janowitz Pdf

Using in-depth examples of 'magical' practice such as exorcisms, love rites, alchemy and the transformation of humans into divine beings, this lively volume demonstrates that the word 'magic' was used widely in late antique texts as part of polemics against enemies and sometimes merely as a term for other people's rituals. Naomi Janowitz shows that 'magical' activities were integral to late antique religious practice, and that they must be understood from the perspective of those who employed them.

Author : Harry Joshua Leon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1258432374

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The Jews of Ancient Rome by Harry Joshua Leon Pdf

Author : L.V. Rutgers
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004493599

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The Jews in Late Ancient Rome by L.V. Rutgers Pdf

It was long believed that Roman Jews lived in complete isolation. This book offers a refutation of this thesis. It focuses on the Jewish community in third and fourth-century Rome, and in particular on how this community related to the larger, non-Jewish world that surrounded it. Jewish archaeological remains and Jewish funerary inscriptions from Rome are examined from various angles, and compared to pagan and early Christian material and epigraphical remains. The author has shown great comprehensiveness, thoroughness, and accuracy in examining this epigraphic evidence. He also discusses the enigmatic legal treatise called the Collatio. This volume proposes a new way in which the relationship between Jews and non-Jews in late antiquity can be studied. As such, it is an important and useful addition to the literature on Roman Jewry in the middle Empire.

Author : E. Mary Smallwood
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 039104155X

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The Jews Under Roman Rule by E. Mary Smallwood Pdf

It is remarkable that Judaism could develop given the domination by Rome in Palestine over the centuries. Smallwood traces Judaism's constantly shifting political, religious, and geographical boundaries under Roman rule from Pompey to Diocletian, that is, from the first century BCE through the third century CE. From a long-standing nationalistic tradition that was a tolerated sect under a pagan ruler, Judaism becomes, over time, a threat that needs to be repressed and confined against a now-Christian empire. This work examines the galvanizing forces that shaped and defined Judaism as we have come to know it. This publication has also been published in hardback, please click here for details.

Author : Peter Schäfer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134371372

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The History of the Jews in Antiquity by Peter Schäfer Pdf

First Published in 1995, the main emphasis of this book is on the political history of the Jews in Palestine, where "political" is to be understood not as the mere succession of rulers and battles but as the interaction between political activity and social, economic and religious circumstances. A particular concern is the investigation of social and economic conditions in the history of Palestinian Judaism.

Author : Michael Grant
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Jews
ISBN : 0880290250

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The Jews in the Roman World by Michael Grant Pdf

Author : Raúl González-Salinero
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004507258

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Military Service and the Integration of Jews into the Roman Empire by Raúl González-Salinero Pdf

Even though relations between the Jewish people and the Roman state were sometimes strained to the point of warfare and bloodshed, Jewish military service between the 1st century BCE to the 6th century CE is attested by multiple sources.

Author : Jörg Frey,Daniel R. Schwartz,Stephanie Gripentrog
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004158382

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Jewish Identity in the Greco-Roman World by Jörg Frey,Daniel R. Schwartz,Stephanie Gripentrog Pdf

The book addresses critical issues of the formation and development of Jewish identity in the late Second Temple period. How could Jewish identity be defined? What about the status of women and the image of 'others'? And what about its ongoing influence in early Christianity?

Author : Katell Berthelot
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2024-08-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691264806

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Jews and Their Roman Rivals by Katell Berthelot Pdf

How encounters with the Roman Empire compelled the Jews of antiquity to rethink their conceptions of Israel and the Torah Throughout their history, Jews have lived under a succession of imperial powers, from Assyria and Babylonia to Persia and the Hellenistic kingdoms. Jews and Their Roman Rivals shows how the Roman Empire posed a unique challenge to Jewish thinkers such as Philo, Josephus, and the Palestinian rabbis, who both resisted and internalized Roman standards and imperial ideology. Katell Berthelot traces how, long before the empire became Christian, Jews came to perceive Israel and Rome as rivals competing for supremacy. Both considered their laws to be the most perfect ever written, and both believed they were a most pious people who had been entrusted with a divine mission to bring order and peace to the world. Berthelot argues that the rabbinic identification of Rome with Esau, Israel's twin brother, reflected this sense of rivalry. She discusses how this challenge transformed ancient Jewish ideas about military power and the use of force, law and jurisdiction, and membership in the people of Israel. Berthelot argues that Jewish thinkers imitated the Romans in some cases and proposed competing models in others. Shedding new light on Jewish thought in antiquity, Jews and Their Roman Rivals reveals how Jewish encounters with pagan Rome gave rise to crucial evolutions in the ways Jews conceptualized the Torah and conversion to Judaism.

Author : Alfredo Mordechai Rabello
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Jews
ISBN : UOM:39015049543138

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The Jews in the Roman Empire by Alfredo Mordechai Rabello Pdf

A collection of reprints of 15 articles published previously. Partial contents: