This volume focuses on the major issues and debates in the study of
Jews and Judaism in late antiquity (3rd to 7th c. C.E.), providing
cutting-edge surveys of the state of scholarship, main topics and
research questions, methodological approaches, and avenues for
future research. Based on both Jewish and non-Jewish, literary and
material sources, this volume takes an interdisciplinary approach
involving historians of ancient Judaism, scholars of rabbinic
literature, archaeologists, epigraphers, art historians, and
Byzantinists. Developments within Jewish society and culture are
viewed within the respective regional, political, cultural, and
socio-economic contexts in which they took place. Special focus is
given to the impact of the Christianization of the Roman Empire on
Jews, from administrative, legal, social, and cultural points of
view. The contributors examine how the confrontation with
Christianity changed Jewish practices, perceptions and
organizational structures, such as, for example, the emergence of
local Jewish communities around synagogues as central religious
spaces. Special chapters are devoted to the eastern and western
Jewish Diaspora in Late Antiquity, especially Sasanian Persia but
also Roman Italy, Egypt, Syria and Arabia, North Africa, and Asia
Minor, to provide a comprehensive assessment of the situation and
life experiences of Jews and Judaism during this period. The
Routledge Handbook of Jews and Judaism in Late Antiquity is a
critical and methodologically sophisticated survey of current
scholarship aimed primarily at students and scholars of Jewish
Studies, Study of Religions, Patristics, Classics, Roman and
Byzantine Studies, Iranology, History of Art and Archaeology. It is
a valuable resource for anyone interested in Judaism and Jewish
history.
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