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How encounters with the Roman Empire compelled the Jews of
antiquity to rethink their conceptions of Israel and the Torah
Throughout their history, Jews have lived under a succession of
imperial powers, from Assyria and Babylonia to Persia and the
Hellenistic kingdoms. Jews and Their Roman Rivals shows how the
Roman Empire posed a unique challenge to Jewish thinkers such as
Philo, Josephus, and the Palestinian rabbis, who both resisted and
internalized Roman standards and imperial ideology. Katell
Berthelot traces how, long before the empire became Christian, Jews
came to perceive Israel and Rome as rivals competing for supremacy.
Both considered their laws to be the most perfect ever written, and
both believed they were a most pious people who had been entrusted
with a divine mission to bring order and peace to the world.
Berthelot argues that the rabbinic identification of Rome with
Esau, Israel's twin brother, reflected this sense of rivalry. She
discusses how this challenge transformed ancient Jewish ideas about
military power and the use of force, law and jurisdiction, and
membership in the people of Israel. Berthelot argues that Jewish
thinkers imitated the Romans in some cases and proposed competing
models in others. Shedding new light on Jewish thought in
antiquity, Jews and Their Roman Rivals reveals how Jewish
encounters with pagan Rome gave rise to crucial evolutions in the
ways Jews conceptualized the Torah and conversion to Judaism.
An expansive history of Jerusalem as a cultural crossroads, and a
fresh look at the urban development of one of the world's most
mythologized cities. Jerusalem is often seen as an eternal
battlefield in the "clash of civilizations" and in endless,
inevitable wars of religion. But if we abandon this limiting image
when reviewing the entirety of its concrete urban history-from its
beginnings to today-we discover a global city at the world's
crossroads. Jerusalem is the common cradle of Judaism,
Christianity, and Islam, whose long and intertwined pasts include
as much exchange and reciprocal influence as conflict and
confrontation. This synthetic account is the first to make
available to the general public Jerusalem's whole history, informed
by the latest archaeological finds, unexplored archives, and
ongoing research and offering a completely renewed understanding of
the city's past and geography. This book is an indispensable guide
to understanding why the world converges on Jerusalem.
How was the future of Rome, both near and distant in time, imagined
by different populations living under the Roman Empire? It emerges
from this collection of essays by a distinguished international
team of scholars that Romans, Greeks, Jews and Christians had
strikingly different answers to that question, revealing profound
differences in their conceptions of history and historical time,
the purpose of history, the meaning of written words and oral
traditions. It is also argued that practically no one living under
Rome's rule, including the Romans themselves, did not think about
the question in one form or another.
Culled from The Eerdmans Dictionary of Early Judaism, a monumental,
groundbreaking reference work published in late 2010, Early
Judaism: A Comprehensive Overview contains fifteen first-rate
essays from a diverse group of internationally renowned scholars.
This volume provides the most comprehensive and authoritative
overview available of Judaism in the Hellenistic and early Roman
periods. Contributors John M. G. BarclayMiriam Pucci Ben ZeevKatell
BerthelotJohn J. CollinsErich S. GruenDaniel C. HarlowJames L.
KugelAdam Kolman MarshakSteve MasonJames S. McLarenMaren R.
NiehoffDavid T. RuniaLawrence H. SchiffmanChris SeemanGregory E.
SterlingLoren T. StuckenbruckEibert TigchelaarEugene UlrichAnnewies
van den HoekJames C. VanderKamJurgen K. Zangenberg
The gift of the land of Israel by God is an essential element in
Jewish identity, religiously and politically. That the gift came at
the expense of the local Canaanites has stimulated deep reflections
and heated debate in Jewish literature, from the creation of the
Bible to the twenty-first century. The essays in this book examine
the theological, ethical, and political issues connected with the
gift and with the fate of the Canaanites, focusing on classical
Jewish texts and major Jewish commentators, legal thinkers, and
philosophers from ancient times to the present.
How was the future of Rome, both near and distant in time, imagined
by different populations living under the Roman Empire? It emerges
from this collection of essays by a distinguished international
team of scholars that Romans, Greeks, Jews and Christians had
strikingly different answers to that question, revealing profound
differences in their conceptions of history and historical time,
the purpose of history, the meaning of written words and oral
traditions. It is also argued that practically no one living under
Rome's rule, including the Romans themselves, did not think about
the question in one form or another.
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