TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dohrmann,Natalie B.
AU  - Reed,Annette Yoshiko
TI  - Jews, Christians, and the Roman Empire: The Poetics of Power in Late Antiquity
T2  - Jewish Culture and Contexts Series
SN  - 9780812208573
AV  - BM177 -- .J495 2013eb 
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Philadelphia
PB  - University of Pennsylvania Press
KW  - Church history-Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600
KW  - Judaism-History-Talmudic period, 10-425
KW  - Rome-Religion
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: Rethinking Romanness, Provincializing Christendom -- Part I. Rabbis and Other Roman Sub-Elites -- 1. The Afterlives of the Torah's Ethnic Language: The Sifra and Clement on Leviticus 18.1-5 -- 2. The Kingdom of Edessa and the Creation of a Christian Aristocracy -- 3. Law and Imperial Idioms: Rabbinic Legalism in a Roman World -- 4. The Law of Moses and the Jews: Rabbis, Ethnic Marking, and Romanization -- Part II. Christianization and Other -- 5. There is No Place like Home: Rabbinic Responses to the Christianization of Palestine -- 6. Between Gaza and Minorca: The (Un)Making of Minorities in Late Antiquity -- 7. Christian Historiographers' Reflections on Jewish-Christian Violence in Fifth-Century Alexandria -- 8. Narrating Salvation: Verbal Sacrifices in Late Antique Liturgical Poetry -- 9. Israelite Kingship, Christian Rome, and the Jewish Imperial Imagination: Midrashic Precursors to the Medieval "Throne of Solomon" -- Part III. Continuity and Rupture -- 10. Chains of Tradition from Avot to the 'Avodah Piyutim -- 11. Change and Continuity in Late Legal Papyri from Palaestina Tertia: Nomos Hellênikos and Ethos Rômaikon -- 12. The Representation of the Temple and Jerusalem in Jewish and Christian Houses of Prayer in the Holy Land in Late Antiquity -- 13. Roman Christianity and the Post-Roman West: The Social Correlates of the Contra Iudaeos Tradition -- Notes -- Select Bibliography of Secondary Sources -- List of Contributors -- Index -- Acknowledgments
N2  - 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 bear on longstanding debates concerning Romanization, Christianization, and late antiquity
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