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Jewish Travel in Antiquity (Hardcover)
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Jewish Travel in Antiquity (Hardcover)
Series: Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism, 144
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This book provides the first comprehensive study of Jewish travel
and mobility in Hellenistic and Roman times, based on a critical
analysis of Jewish, Graeco-Roman, and early Christian literary,
epigraphic, and archaeological sources and a social-historical
evaluation of the material. Catherine Hezser shows that certain
segments of ancient Jewish society were quite mobile. Mobility
seems to have increased in the later Roman period, when an
extensive road system facilitated travel within the province of
Syria-Palestine and the neighbouring Middle Eastern regions. Second
Temple Judaism was centralized, with Jerusalem as its central space
and seat of priestly authority. In post-70 rabbinic Judaism, on the
other hand, connections between rabbis could be established through
mutual visits and second- and third-degree contacts only. Mobility
formed the basis of the establishment of a decentralized rabbinic
network in Palestine and Babylonia in late antiquity. Numerous
narrative and halakhic traditions indicate the importance of
mobility for communication and the exchange of knowledge amongst
rabbis. It is argued that the rabbis who were most mobile sat at
the nodal points of the rabbinic network and elicited the largest
amount of influence. They would have combined business travel with
scholarly exchange. Scholars' journeys between Palestine and
Babylonia are viewed within the wider context of Rome and Persia's
economic and cultural exchange in which Jews, just like Christians,
may have played the role of intermediaries.
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