Benjamin Isaac Judaea-Palaestina, Babylon and Rome: Jews in Antiquity (Hardback)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: Judaea-Palaestina, Babylon and Rome: Jews in AntiquityCondition: NewFormat: HardbackEAN: 9783161516979ISBN: 9783161516979Publisher: Mohr SiebeckRelease Date: 04/26/2012Description: 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.Many of the papers provide a new assessment of the relevant subjects in the light of changing views of social and religious history. Central to many of the papers is a focus on attitudes toward others and collective image: the Jews as seen by others; Jews looking at others and at internal groups. Another category of articles are chapters in social and intellectual history with a sensitive and controversial ideology in the background, some of them providing provocative re-assessments.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: DEItem Height: 162mmItem Length: 238mmItem Weight: 657gContributor: Benjamin Isaac (Edited by), Yuval Shahar (Edited by)Author: Benjamin IsaacGenre: HistoryTopic: Ancient HistoryBook Series: Texts and Studies in Ancient JudaismRelease Year: 2012 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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