ISBN:
9783161516979
Language:
English
Pages:
IX, 324 Seiten
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Ill., Kt.
Year of publication:
2012
Series Statement:
Texts and studies in ancient Judaism = Texte und Studien zum Antiken Judentum 147
Series Statement:
Texts and studies in ancient Judaism
Keywords:
Römisches Reich
Abstract:
The present volume brings together papers by internationally renowned specialists in Jewish history in the Roman period. Most of them were read at a conference at Tel Aviv University in 2009 in honour of Aharon Oppenheimer. The volume focuses on a number of well-defined key topics in the history of the Jews both in Judea and in the diaspora: first of all the image of Jews among non-Jews and of non-Jews among Jews; questions of social and intellectual history, mostly those dealing with the transformation that took place as a result of the failed Jewish revolts against Rome and urgent issues in modern scholarship.Studies to be mentioned here are: the relationship and cultural differences between Palestinian and Babylonian Jews; the relationship between Jews and early Christians; the evolving image of first century Judaism as projected in the early Christian sources and modern scholarship; the role of the sages in this period, conversion to Judaism, and Jewish resistance and martyrdom under Roman rule.
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