The Jewish Dialogue With Greece And Rome

Author : Tessa Rajak
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 599 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789047400196

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The Jewish Dialogue with Greece and Rome by Tessa Rajak Pdf

Twenty-seven interdisciplinary essays on aspects of Judaism in the Greco-Roman world, exemplifying a wide range of techniques, by a well-known scholar. Three are previously unpublished, including a reappraisal of the Judaism and Hellenism debate and a study of the Sardis synagogue. The book's overall coherence derives from the author's long-standing interests in the analysis of texts as documents of cultural and religious interaction, and in how Jewish communities were woven into the social fabric of Greek cities in the Hellenistic and Roman East. The four sections are: Greeks and Jews, Josephus, The Jewish Diaspora and Epigraphy, and finally Beyond the Greeks and Romans, essays which extend into Christian literature and on to the nineteenth century reception of the Judaism/Hellenism dichotomy. Scholars and students from a wide variety of backgrounds will benefit. This publication has also been published in paperback, please click here for details.

Author : Margaret H. Williams,Margaret Williams
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105023154656

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The Jews Among the Greeks and Romans by Margaret H. Williams,Margaret Williams Pdf

This collection of freshly translated texts is designed to introduce those interested in Graeco-Roman and Jewish culture to the realities of Jewish life outside Israel between 323 BC and the middle of the 5th century AD.

Author : Max Radin
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : EAN:4057664120328

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The Jews among the Greeks and Romans by Max Radin Pdf

The Jews, as one of the Mediterranean nations, began to come into close contact with Greek civilization about the time of Alexander the Great. What has been attempted in the foregoing pages is an interpretation of certain facts of Jewish, Roman, and Greek history within a given period. The literature on the subject is enormous. A short bibliography is appended, in which various books of reference are cited. From these all who are interested in the innumerable controversies that the subject has elicited may obtain full information. Contents: Greek Religious Concepts Roman Religious Concepts Greek and Roman Concepts of Race Sketch of Jewish History between Nebuchadnezzar and Constantine Internal Development of the Jews during the Persian Period The First Contact between Greek and Jew Egypt Jews in Ptolemaic Egypt The Struggle against Greek Culture in Palestine Antiochus the Manifest God The Jewish Propaganda The Opposition The Opposition in Its Social Aspect The Philosophic Opposition The Romans Jews in Rome during the Early Empire The Jews of the Empire till the Revolt The Revolt of 68 C.E. The Development of the Roman Jewish Community The Final Revolts of the Jews The Legal Position of the Jews in the Later Empire

Author : Michael Tuval
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Jewish historians
ISBN : 3161523865

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From Jerusalem Priest to Roman Jew by Michael Tuval Pdf

In this study, Michael Tuval examines the religion of Flavius Josephus diachronically. The author suggests that because Diaspora Jews could not participate regularly in the cultic life of the Jerusalem Temple, they developed other paradigms of Judaic religiosity. He interprets Josephus as a Jew who began his career as a Judean priest but moved to Rome and gradually became a Diaspora intellectual. Josephus' first work, Judean War, reflects a Judean priestly view of Judaism, with the Temple and cult at the center. After these disappeared, there was not much hope left in the religious realm. Tuval also analyzes Antiquities of the Jews, which was written fifteen years later. Here the religious picture has been transformed drastically. The Temple has been marginalized or replaced by the law which is universal and perfect for all humanity.

Author : Louis H. Feldman,Meyer Reinhold
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1996-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567085252

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Jewish Life and Thought Among Greeks and Romans by Louis H. Feldman,Meyer Reinhold Pdf

Two of the world's leading authorities on the classical era bring together a comprehensive treasury of sources on Judaism in the ancient period.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780521622967

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Jewish War under Trajan and Hadrian by Anonim Pdf

Author : Benjamin Isaac
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107135895

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Empire and Ideology in the Graeco-Roman World by Benjamin Isaac Pdf

This book explores how the Graeco-Roman world suffered from major power conflicts, imperial ambition, and ethnic, religious and racist strife.

Author : Erich S. Gruen
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2009-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0674037995

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Diaspora by Erich S. Gruen Pdf

What was life like for Jews settled throughout the Mediterranean world of Classical antiquity--and what place did Jewish communities have in the diverse civilization dominated by Greeks and Romans? In a probing account of the Jewish diaspora in the four centuries from Alexander the Great's conquest of the Near East to the Roman destruction of the Jewish Temple in 70 C.E., Erich Gruen reaches often surprising conclusions. By the first century of our era, Jews living abroad far outnumbered those living in Palestine and had done so for generations. Substantial Jewish communities were found throughout the Greek mainland and Aegean islands, Asia Minor, the Tigris-Euphrates valley, Egypt, and Italy. Focusing especially on Alexandria, Greek cities in Asia Minor, and Rome, Gruen explores the lives of these Jews: the obstacles they encountered, the institutions they established, and their strategies for adjustment. He also delves into Jewish writing in this period, teasing out how Jews in the diaspora saw themselves. There emerges a picture of a Jewish minority that was at home in Greco-Roman cities: subject to only sporadic harassment; its intellectuals immersed in Greco-Roman culture while refashioning it for their own purposes; exhibiting little sign of insecurity in an alien society; and demonstrating both a respect for the Holy Land and a commitment to the local community and Gentile government. Gruen's innovative analysis of the historical and literary record alters our understanding of the way this vibrant minority culture engaged with the dominant Classical civilization.

Author : Fergus Millar
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 549 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2011-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807876657

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Rome, the Greek World, and the East by Fergus Millar Pdf

This volume completes the three-volume collection of Fergus Millar's essays, which, together with his books, transformed the study of the Roman Empire by shifting the focus of inquiry onto the broader Mediterranean world and beyond. The eighteen essays presented here include Millar's classic contributions to our understanding of the impact of Rome on the peoples, cultures, and religions of the eastern Mediterranean, and the extent to which Graeco-Roman culture acted as a vehicle for the self-expression of the indigenous cultures. In an epilogue written to conclude the collection, Millar argues for rethinking the focus of "ancient history" itself and for considering the Levant and the eastern Mediterranean from the first millennium B.C. to the Islamic conquests a valid scholarly framework and an appropriate educational syllabus for the study of antiquity. English translations of extended ancient passages in Greek, Latin, and Semitic languages in all the essays make Millar's most important articles accessible for the first time to specialists and nonspecialists alike.

Author : Burton L. Visotzky
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781250085771

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Aphrodite and the Rabbis by Burton L. Visotzky Pdf

Hard to believe but true: - The Passover Seder is a Greco-Roman symposium banquet - The Talmud rabbis presented themselves as Stoic philosophers - Synagogue buildings were Roman basilicas - Hellenistic rhetoric professors educated sons of well-to-do Jews - Zeus-Helios is depicted in synagogue mosaics across ancient Israel - The Jewish courts were named after the Roman political institution, the Sanhedrin - In Israel there were synagogues where the prayers were recited in Greek. Historians have long debated the (re)birth of Judaism in the wake of the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple cult by the Romans in 70 CE. What replaced that sacrificial cult was at once something new–indebted to the very culture of the Roman overlords–even as it also sought to preserve what little it could of the old Israelite religion. The Greco-Roman culture in which rabbinic Judaism grew in the first five centuries of the Common Era nurtured the development of Judaism as we still know and celebrate it today. Arguing that its transformation from a Jerusalem-centered cult to a world religion was made possible by the Roman Empire, Rabbi Burton Visotzky presents Judaism as a distinctly Roman religion. Full of fascinating detail from the daily life and culture of Jewish communities across the Hellenistic world, Aphrodite and the Rabbis will appeal to anyone interested in the development of Judaism, religion, history, art and architecture.

Author : John Marincola
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 697 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2010-12-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781444393828

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A Companion to Greek and Roman Historiography by John Marincola Pdf

This two-volume Companion to Greek and Roman Historiography reflects the new directions and interpretations that have arisen in the field of ancient historiography in the past few decades. Comprises a series of cutting edge articles written by recognised scholars Presents broad, chronological treatments of important issues in the writing of history and antiquity These are complemented by chapters on individual genres and sub-genres from the fifth century B.C.E. to the fourth century C.E. Provides a series of interpretative readings on the individual historians Contains essays on the neighbouring genres of tragedy, biography, and epic, among others, and their relationship to history

Author : William David Davies,Louis Finkelstein
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1178 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Jews
ISBN : 0521772486

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The Cambridge History of Judaism by William David Davies,Louis Finkelstein Pdf

"Ntroduction Steven J. Katz; 1. Social, political and economic life in the land of Israel, 70-c.235 Seth Schwartz; 2. The Diaspora from 66-c.235: (a) The Jews in Egypt and Cyrenaica, 66-c.235 Allen Kerkeslager; (b) Jews in Carthage and western north Africa, 70-c.235 Claudia Setzer; (c) The Jews in Asia Minor, 70-c.235 Paul Trebilco; (d) The Jews in Babylonia, 70-c.235 David Goldblatt; 3. The uprising in the Jewish Diaspora, 115-117 Miriam Pucci Ben Zeev; 4. The Bar Kochba Revolt, 132-135 Hanan Eshel; 5. The legal status of Jews in the Roman empire Amnon Linder; 6. Jewish art and architecture in the land of Israel, 70-c.235 Eric M. Meyers; 7. The destruction of the Jerusalem temple: its meaning and its consequences Robert Goldenberg; 8. The origins and development of the rabbinic movement in the land of Israel Hayim Lapin; 9. The canonical process James A. Sanders; 10. The beginnings of Christian anti-Judaism, 70-c.235 Peter Richardson; 11. The rabbinic response to Christianity Steven T. Katz; 12. The Mishnah David Kraemer; 13. The Tosefta Paul Mandel; 14. Midrash Halachah Jay M. Harris; 15. Mishnaic Hebrew Moshe Bar-Asher; 16. The political and social history of the Jewish community in the land of Israel, c.235-638 David Goldblatt; 17. The material realities of Jewish life in the land of Israel, 235-c.638 Joshua J. Schwartz; 18. Aramaic in late antiquity Yochanan Breuer; 19. The Diaspora c.235-638: (a) The Jews of Italy, c.235-638 Leonard Victor Rutgers; (b) The Jews of Spain, c.235-638 Scott Bradbury; 20. Jewish archaeology in late antiquity: art, architecture and inscriptions Lee Levine; 21. Jewish festivals in late antiquity Joseph Tabory; 22. Rabbinic prayer in late antiquity Reuven Kimelman; 23. Rabbinic views on marriage, sexuality and the family Michael L. Satlow; 24. Women in Jewish life and law Tal Ilan; 25. Gentiles in rabbinic thought David Novak; 26. The formation and character of the Jerusalem Talmud Leib Moscovitz; 27. Late Midrashic Paytanic and Targumic literature Avigdor Shinan; 28. Jewish magic in late antiquity Michael D. Swartz; 29. Jewish folk literature in late antiquity Eli Yassif; 30. Early forms of Jewish mysticism Rachel Elior; 31. The political, social and economic history of Babylonian Jewry, c.235-638 Isaiah M. Gafni; 32. The history of Babylonian academics David Goldblatt; 33. The formation and character of the Babylonian Talmud Richard Kalmin; 34. Talmudic law: a jurisprudential perspective Hanina Ben Menahem; 35. Torah in rabbinic thought: the theology of learning Marc Hirshman; 36. Man, sin and redemption in rabbinic thought Steven T. Katz; 37. The rabbinic theology of the physical: blessings, body and soul, resurrection, covenant and election Reuven Kimelman; 38. Christian anti-Judaism: polemics and politics Paula Fredriksen and Oded Irshai; 39. Jews in Byzantium Steven Bowman; Appendix A: Justinian and the revision of Jewish legal status Alfredo Mordechai Rabello; 40. Messianism and apocalypticism in rabbinic texts Lawrence H. Schiffma.

Author : Shlomo Simonsohn
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004282360

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The Jews of Italy by Shlomo Simonsohn Pdf

The Jews of Italy: Antiquity describes the history of the Jewish presence on the peninsula during the first seven centuries, from the days of the Maccabees to Pope Gregory the Great.

Author : Joseph Sievers,Gaia Lembi
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2005-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789047415527

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Josephus and Jewish History in Flavian Rome and Beyond by Joseph Sievers,Gaia Lembi Pdf

This volume focuses on the interplay between Josephus’ Judean identity and his Roman context. After treating historiographical and literary issues, it addresses Josephus’ presentation of Judaism and of historical “facts”. A final section deals with the transmission of his works.

Author : Catherine Hezser
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 746 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2024-01-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781315280950

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The Routledge Handbook of Jews and Judaism in Late Antiquity by Catherine Hezser Pdf

This volume focuses on the major issues and debates in the study of Jews and Judaism in late antiquity (third to seventh century C.E.), providing cutting-edge surveys of the state of scholarship, main topics and research questions, methodological approaches, and avenues for future research. Based on both Jewish and non-Jewish literary and material sources, this volume takes an interdisciplinary approach involving historians of ancient Judaism, scholars of rabbinic literature, archaeologists, epigraphers, art historians, and Byzantinists. Developments within Jewish society and culture are viewed within the respective regional, political, cultural, and socioeconomic contexts in which they took place. Special focus is given to the impact of the Christianization of the Roman Empire on Jews, from administrative, legal, social, and cultural points of view. The contributors examine how the confrontation with Christianity changed Jewish practices, perceptions, and organizational structures, such as, for example, the emergence of local Jewish communities around synagogues as central religious spaces. Special chapters are devoted to the eastern and western Jewish Diaspora in Late Antiquity, especially Sasanian Persia but also Roman Italy, Egypt, Syria and Arabia, North Africa, and Asia Minor, to provide a comprehensive assessment of the situation and life experiences of Jews and Judaism during this period. The Routledge Handbook of Jews and Judaism in Late Antiquity is a critical and methodologically sophisticated survey of current scholarship aimed primarily at students and scholars of Jewish Studies, Study of Religions, Patristics, Classics, Roman and Byzantine Studies, Iranology, History of Art, and Archaeology. It is a valuable resource for anyone interested in Judaism and Jewish history.