Military Service and the Integration of Jews into the Roman Empire /

"According to Raúl González Salinero, the plurality of religious expressions within Judaism prior to the predominance of the rabbinical current disproves the assumption according to which some Jewish customs and precepts (especially the Sabbath) prevented Jews from joining the Roman army withou...

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Main Author: González-Salinero, Raúl (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2022.

Series: The Brill Reference Library of Judaism ; 72.
Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2022.

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