Imperialism and Jewish Society

200 B.C.E. to 640 C.E.

Seth Schwartz (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

336 Seiten

2001
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-08850-1 (ISBN)

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Probing more than eight centuries of Persian, Greek, and Roman rule, the author reaches some provocative conclusions regarding Palestinian Jewish history - foremost among them, that the Christianization of the Roman Empire generated the most fundamental features of medieval and modern Jewish life.

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. Through masterful scholarship set in rich detail, this book challenges traditional views rooted in romantic notions about Jewish fortitude. Integrating material relics and literature while setting the Jews in their eastern Mediterranean context, it addresses the complex and varied consequences of imperialism on this vast period of Jewish history more ambitiously than ever before.

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.

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

Erscheint lt. Verlag	18.11.2001
Reihe/Serie	Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World
Verlagsort	New Jersey
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 235 mm
Gewicht	624 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-691-08850-0 / 0691088500
ISBN-13	978-0-691-08850-1 / 9780691088501
Zustand	Neuware