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In histories of ancient Jews and Judaism, the Roman Empire looms large. For all the attention to the Jewish Revolt and other conflicts, however, there has been less concern for situating Jews within Roman imperial contexts; just as Jews are frequently dismissed as atypical by scholars of Roman history, so Rome remains invisible in many studies of rabbinic and other Jewish sources written under Roman rule. Jews, Christians, and the Roman Empire brings Jewish perspectives to bear on long-standing debates concerning Romanization, Christianization, and late antiquity. Focusing on the third to sixth centuries, it draws together specialists in Jewish and Christian history, law, literature, poetry, and art. Perspectives from rabbinic and patristic sources are juxtaposed with evidence from piyyutim, documentary papyri, and synagogue and church mosaics. Through these case studies, contributors highlight paradoxes, subtleties, and ironies of Romanness and imperial power. Contributors: William Adler, Beth A. Berkowitz, Ra'anan Boustan, Hannah M. Cotton, Natalie B. Dohrmann, Paula Fredriksen, Oded Irshai, Hayim Lapin, Joshua Levinson, Ophir Munz-Manor, Annette Yoshiko Reed, Hagith Sivan, Michael D. Swartz, Rina Talgam.

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Book category Books in English Humanities History History: earliest times to present day

• Full title: Jews, Christians, and the Roman Empire
• Subtitle: The Poetics of Power in Late Antiquity
• Author: Natalie B Dohrmann
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 400
• EAN: 9780812245332
• ISBN: 0812245334
• ID: 02364471
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Weight: 790 g
• Dimensions: 163 × 227 × 32 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. November 2013

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