Were the Jews a Mediterranean Society? (eBook)

Reciprocity and Solidarity in Ancient Judaism

Seth Schwartz (Autor)

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2009
224 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-3098-5 (ISBN)

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How well integrated were Jews in the Mediterranean society controlled by ancient Rome? The Torah's laws seem to constitute a rejection of the reciprocity-based social dependency and emphasis on honor that were customary in the ancient Mediterranean world. But were Jews really a people apart, and outside of this broadly shared culture? Were the Jews a Mediterranean Society? argues that Jewish social relations in antiquity were animated by a core tension between biblical solidarity and exchange-based social values such as patronage, vassalage, formal friendship, and debt slavery. Seth Schwartz's examinations of the Wisdom of Ben Sira, the writings of Josephus, and the Palestinian Talmud reveal that Jews were more deeply implicated in Roman and Mediterranean bonds of reciprocity and honor than is commonly assumed. Schwartz demonstrates how Ben Sira juxtaposes exhortations to biblical piety with hard-headed and seemingly contradictory advice about coping with the dangers of social relations with non-Jews; how Josephus describes Jews as essentially countercultural; yet how the Talmudic rabbis assume Jews have completely internalized Roman norms at the same time as the rabbis seek to arouse resistance to those norms, even if it is only symbolic. Were the Jews a Mediterranean Society? is the first comprehensive exploration of Jewish social integration in the Roman world, one that poses challenging new questions about the very nature of Mediterranean culture.

Autor

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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 21.9.2009
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte / Antike
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: Absalom • Academy of the Hebrew Language • Against Apion • Ancient Judaism (book) • Anecdote • Avodah Zarah • Baraita • Bar Kokhba revolt • Ben Ezra Synagogue • Ben Sira • Berakhot (Talmud) • Bikkurim (Talmud) • Book of Leviticus • Bread and circuses • Census of Quirinius • Center for Advanced Judaic Studies • Conversion to Judaism • culture and society • Culture of Greece • deference • Deuteronomist • Egypt (Roman province) • euergetism • Family resemblance • First Jewish–Roman War • Genesis Rabbah • gentile • Greco-Roman mysteries • Hagigah • Hebrew Bible • Hebrew language • Hebrews • Hellenistic period • Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities • israelites • Jewish Culture • Jewish Diaspora • Jewish History • Jewish Identity • Jewish Leadership • Jewish Literature • jewish mythology • Jewish prayer • Jewish religious movements • Jewish Studies • Jews • Josephus • Judaism • Judea (Roman province) • Judeo-Christian • Justus of Tiberias • Mediterraneanism • Merkabah mysticism • Midrash • Mishnah • mitzvah • Moses • Moses Finley • Mossad • Nazirite • Noahidism • Oral Torah • Orientalism • palestinian jews • Palestinian rabbis • palestinians • pericope • pharisees • Politique • Rabbi • Rabbi Ishmael • Rabbi Meir • Rabbinic Judaism • rabbinic literature • Religio licita • Religion • Roman historiography • Roman Religion • Rome and Jerusalem • Samaritans • Sanhedrin • Second Temple Judaism • Sefer (Hebrew) • Sefer Yetzirah • Sephardi Jews • Seven Laws of Noah • Shlomo • Social Anthropology • Sotah (Talmud) • Superiority (short story) • Synagogue • Ta'anit (Talmud) • Talmud • Talmudic law • the jewish war • Theodicy • Torah • Torah study • Tosefta • women in Judaism
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-3098-2 / 1400830982
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-3098-5 / 9781400830985