Jewish and Christian Communal Identities in the Roman World Book [PDF] Download

• Publisher : BRILL
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• Release Date : 21 June 2016

The studies in this volume examine the unique communal patterns among Jews and Christians within Roman civic culture and their diverse responses to shared challenges under Imperial rule.

• Publisher : BRILL
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• Release Date : 25 June 2024

The book addresses critical issues of the formation and development of Jewish identity in the late Second Temple period. How could Jewish identity be defined? What about the status of

• Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
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• Release Date : 27 May 2004

Judith Lieu's study explores how a sense of being a Christian was shaped within the setting of the Jewish and Graeco-Roman world. By exploring this theme she reveals what made

• Publisher : BRILL
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• Release Date : 25 June 2024

These collected studies, previously published in diverse places between 1990 and 2006, discuss important and controversial issues in the study of the development of Judaism in the Roman world from the first

• Publisher : Routledge
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• Release Date : 15 April 2013

In the period of Roman domination there were communities of Jews, some still in Palestine, some dispersed in and around the Roman Empire; they had to face at first the

• Publisher : Liverpool University Press
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• Release Date : 01 September 1996

Marcel Simon's classic study examines Jewish-Christian relations in the Roman Empire from the second Jewish War (132-5 CE) to the end of the Jewish Patriarchate in 425 CE. First published in

• Publisher : Unknown Publisher
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• Release Date : 17 May 2018

The first full treatment of Jewish childhood in the Roman world. Explores the lives of minors both inside and outside the home.

• Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
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• Release Date : 18 August 2020

In the Seat of Moses offers readers a unique, frank, and penetrating analysis of the rise of rabbinic Judaism in the late Roman period. Over time and through masterly rhetorical

• Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
• File Size : 23,6 Mb
• Release Date : 01 November 2013

This volume revisits issues of empire from the perspective of Jews, Christians, and other Romans in the third to sixth centuries. Through case studies, the contributors bring Jewish perspectives to

• Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
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• Release Date : 05 June 2023

Over the first eight centuries CE, the religious cultures of Middle Eastern, Mediterranean and many European lands transformed. Worship of “the gods” largely gave way to the worship of YHWH,