Imperialism and Jewish Society 200 B. C. E. to 640 C. E.

Name: Imperialism and Jewish Society 200 B. C. E. to 640 C. E.
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ISBN: 9780691117812

ISBN-10: 0691117810

ISBN-13: 9780691117812

Edition: 2001

Authors: Seth Schwartz

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This provocative new history of Palestinian Jewish society in antiquity marks the first comprehensive effort to gauge the effects of imperial domination on this people. Probing more than eight centuries of Persian, Greek, and Roman rule, Seth Schwartz reaches some startling conclusions--foremost among them that the Christianization of the Roman Empire generated the most fundamental features of medieval and modern Jewish life. Schwartz begins by arguing that the distinctiveness of Judaism in the Persian, Hellenistic, and early Roman periods was the product of generally prevailing imperial tolerance. From around 70 C.E. to the mid-fourth century, with failed revolts and the alluring cultural…

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List price: $50.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 2/1/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.13" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

Seth Schwartz is the Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Classical Jewish Civilization and professor of religion at Columbia University. He is the author of "Imperialism and Jewish Society, 200 BCE to 640 CE" (Princeton) and "Josephus and Judaean Politics".



Acknowledgments


Abbreviations


Introduction



The Jews of Palestine to 70 C.E.



Politics and Society



Religion and Society before 70 C.E.



Jews in Palestine From 135 to 350



Rabbis and Patriarchs on the Margins



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



The Rabbis and Urban Culture



Synagogue and Community From 350 to 640



Christianization



A Landscape Transformed



Origins and Diffusion of the Synagogue



Judaization



The Synagogue and the Ideology of Community


Conclusion


Selected Bibliography


Index