Jewish and Christian communal identities in the Roman world /
Jews and Christians under the Roman Empire shared a unique sense of community. Set apart from their civic and cultic surroundings, both groups resisted complete assimilation into the dominant political and social structures. However, Jewish communities differed from their Christian counterparts in t...
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Language: English
Published:
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2016]
Series:
Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity
94.
Ancient Judaism & Early Christianity Online, ISBN: 9789004365223.
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Call Number: BL53 .J49 2016
| Summary: | Jews and Christians under the Roman Empire shared a unique sense of community. Set apart from their civic and cultic surroundings, both groups resisted complete assimilation into the dominant political and social structures. However, Jewish communities differed from their Christian counterparts in their overall patterns of response to the surrounding challenges. They exhibit diverse levels of integration into the civic fabric of the cities of the Empire and display contrary attitudes towards the creation of trans-local communal networks. The variety of local case studies examined in this volume offers an integrated image of the multiple factors, both internal and external, which determined the role of communal identity in creating a sense of belonging among Jews and Christians under Imperial constraints. |
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| Item Description: | "This volume presents revised versions of lectures given in October 2013 at a Jerusalem symposium on Jewish and Christian Communal Identities in Antiquity. The Hebrew University's Scholion Center for Interdisciplinary Research in the Humanities and Jewish Studies together with the editorial board of Brill's Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity series kindly co-sponsored the symposium in memory of our colleague Friedrich Avemarie."--Preface. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 286 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9789004321694 |
| ISSN: | 1871-6636 ; |
| Access: | Available to subscribing member institutions only. |