Author: Margaret H. WilliamsPublisher: Mohr Siebeck
ISBN: 9783161519017
Category : Hellenism
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
A collection of articles published previously.
Jews in a Graeco-Roman Environment
Author: Margaret H. WilliamsPublisher: Mohr Siebeck
ISBN: 9783161519017
Category : Hellenism
Languages : en
Pages : 494
Book Description
A collection of articles published previously.
Art and Judaism in the Greco-Roman World
Author: Steven FinePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521844918
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Publisher Description
The Jews Among the Greeks and Romans
Author: Margaret H. WilliamsPublisher: Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
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.
The Jewish-Greek Tradition in Antiquity and the Byzantine Empire
Author: James K. AitkenPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107001633
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
This comprehensive survey of Jewish-Greek society's development examines the exchange of language and ideas in biblical translations, literature and archaeology.
The History of the Jews in the Greco-Roman World
Author: Peter SchaferPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
Diaspora
Author: Erich S. GruenPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674273214
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
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.
The Jews in Late Ancient Rome
Author: L.V. RutgersPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004283471
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
The Jews in Late Ancient Rome focusses 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. The book's point of departure is a refutation of the disputable thesis that Roman Jews lived in complete isolation. The book examines Jewish archaeological remains and Jewish funerary inscriptions from Rome from various angles, and compares them with Pagan and early Christian material and epigraphical remains. In the last part the author concentrates on an enigmatic legal treatise entitled the Collatio, identifying its author and exploring the implications of this identification. This study proposes a new way in which the relationship between Jews and non-Jews in late antiquity can be studied.
Jewish Childhood in the Roman World
Author: Hagith SivanPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108684483
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
This is the first full treatment of Jewish childhood in the Roman world. It follows minors into the spaces where they lived, learned, played, slept, and died and examines the actions and interaction of children with other children, with close-kin adults, and with strangers, both inside and outside the home. A wide range of sources are used, from the rabbinic rules to the surviving painted representations of children from synagogues, and due attention is paid to broader theoretical issues and approaches. Hagith Sivan concludes with four beautifully reconstructed 'autobiographies' of specific children, from a boy living and dying in a desert cave during the Bar-Kokhba revolt to an Alexandrian girl forced to leave her home and wander through the Mediterranean in search of a respite from persecution. The book tackles the major questions of the relationship between Jewish childhood and Jewish identity which remain important to this day.
The Social Worlds of Ancient Jews and Christians
Author: Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900452486X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
This volume honors L. Michael White, whose work has been influential in exploring the “social worlds” of ancient Jews and Christians. Fifteen original essays highlight his scholarly contributions while also signaling new directions in the study of ancient Mediterranean religions.
The Mediterranean Diaspora in Late Antiquity
Author: Ross Shepard KraemerPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019022228X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Mediterranean Diaspora in Late Antiquity examines the fate of Jews living in the Mediterranean Jewish diaspora after the Roman emperor Constantine threw his patronage to the emerging orthodox (Nicene) Christian churches. By the fifth century, much of the rich material evidence for Greek and Latin-speaking Jews in the diaspora diminishes sharply. Ross Shepard Kraemer argues that this increasing absence of evidence is evidence of increasing absence of Jews themselves. Literary sources, late antique Roman laws, and archaeological remains illuminate how Christian bishops and emperors used a variety of tactics to coerce Jews into conversion: violence, threats of violence, deprivation of various legal rights, exclusion from imperial employment, and others. Unlike other non-orthodox Christians, Jews who resisted conversion were reluctantly tolerated, perhaps because of beliefs that Christ's return required their conversion. In response to these pressures, Jews leveraged political and social networks for legal protection, retaliated with their own acts of violence, and sometimes became Christians. Some may have emigrated to regions where imperial laws were more laxly enforced, or which were under control of non-orthodox (Arian) Christians. Increasingly, they embraced forms of Jewish practice that constructed tighter social boundaries around them. The Mediterranean Diaspora in Late Antiquity concludes that by the beginning of the seventh century, the orthodox Christianization of the Roman Empire had cost diaspora Jews--and all non-orthodox persons, including Christians--dearly.