Language:
German
Year of publication:
1998
Titel der Quelle:
Historische Zeitschrift
Angaben zur Quelle:
266,1 (1998) 23-46
Keywords:
Antisemitism
;
Jews
;
Judaism Relations
;
Christianity
;
Christianity and other religions Judaism
;
Church history Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600
;
Christianity and other religions Judaism
;
History
Abstract:
Disputes the common conception that increasingly restrictive Roman legislation against the Jews, culminating in the codex and decrees of Justinian, was due to Christian influence. The Church combated the Jewish religion in order to convert Jews to Christianity and prevent the conversion of Christians to Judaism; it did not advocate the persecution of Jews. Restrictive legislation by the state began long before the Christianization of Rome, during the early years of the Empire. The goal of the emperors, pagan and Christian, was to unite all the peoples of the Empire under a centralized administration that treated all its subjects evenhandedly; the Jews' demand for special privileges necessitated by their religion was incompatible with this goal. The emperors' attempts to impose conformity resulted in three great Jewish uprisings in Judaea and in the Diaspora in the 1st-2nd centuries.
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