Schwartz Imperialism and Jewish Society

200 B.C.E. to 640 C.E.
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E-Book, Englisch, 336 Seiten

Reihe: Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World

Seth Schwartz is the Gerson D. Cohen Professor of History at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York. He is the author of Josephus and Judaean Politics and coauthor, with Roger Bagnall, Alan Cameron, and Klaas Worp, of Consuls of the Later Roman Empire.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schwartz, Seth

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte des Judentums (Diaspora)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS vii

ABREVIATIONS ix

Introduction 1

PART I: THE JEWS OF PALESTINE TO 70 C.E. 17

ONE: Politics and Society 19

TWO: Religion and Society before 70 C.E. 49

PART II: JEWS IN PALESTINE FROM 135 TO 350 101

THREE: Rabbis and Patriarchs on the Margins 103

FOUR: Jews or Pagans? The Jews and the Greco-Roman Cities of Palestine 129

FIVE: The Rabbis and Urban Culture 162

PART III: SYNAGOGUE AND COMMUNITY FROM 350 TO 640 177

SIX: Christianization 179

SEVEN: A Landscape Transformed 203

EIGHT: Origins and Diffusion of the Synagogue 215

NINE: Judaization 240

TEN: The Synagogue and the Ideology of Community 275

Conclusion 291

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 293

INDEX 317

Über Autor(innen)

Seth Schwartz is the Gerson D. Cohen Professor of History at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York. He is the author of Josephus and Judaean Politics and coauthor, with Roger Bagnall, Alan Cameron, and Klaas Worp, of Consuls of the Later Roman Empire.