Jewish and Christian communal identities in the Roman world /

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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Other Authors: Furstenberg, Yair.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]

Series: Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity 94.
Ancient Judaism & Early Christianity Online, ISBN: 9789004365223.

Subjects:

To 1500
Identification (Religion) > History > To 1500.
Identity (Psychology) > Religious aspects > History.
Jews > Identity > History > To 1500.
Judaism > History > Talmudic period, 10-425.
Judaism > Relations > Christianity.
Identity (Psychology) > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Church history > Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
Christianity and other religions > Judaism.
Civilization, Greco-Roman.
Church history > Primitive and early church.
Identification (Religion)
Identity (Psychology) > Religious aspects.
Jews > Identity.
Judaism > Talmudic period.
History.

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Call Number: BL53 .J49 2016

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction: The Shared Dimensions of Jewish and Christian Communal Identities /
  • Yair Furstenberg
  • The Ptolemaic and Roman Definitions of Social Categories and the Evolution of Judean Communal Identity in Egypt /
  • Sylvie Honigman
  • The Roman State and Jewish Diaspora Communities in the Antonine Age /
  • Martin Goodman
  • Civic Identity and Christ Groups /
  • John S. Kloppenborg
  • Organized Charity in the Ancient World: Pagan, Jewish, Christian /
  • Pieter W. van der Horst
  • The Fourth Book of Maccabees in a Multi-Cultural City /
  • Tessa Rajak
  • Rome and Alexandria: Why was there no Jewish Politeuma in Rome? /
  • Daniel R. Schwartz
  • From Text to Community: Methodological Problems of Reconstructing Communities behind Texts /
  • Jörg Frey
  • Lycaonian Christianity under Roman Rule and their Jewish-Christian Tradition /
  • Cilliers Breytenbach
  • The Jewish Community in Egypt before and after 117 ce in Light of Old and New Papyri /
  • Tal Ilan
  • Jewish Communities in the Roman Diaspora: Why Salo Baron Still Matters? /
  • Seth Schwartz
  • "You are a Chosen Stock . . .": The Use of Israel Epithets for the Addressees in First Peter /
  • Lutz Doering
  • Author Index
  • General Index.