The Jews in Late Ancient Rome. Evidence of Cultural Interaction in the Roman Diaspora.

Rutgers, Leonard Victor

ISBN 10: 9004102698 / ISBN 13: 9789004102699

Published by Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden, New York, Köln, 1995., 1995

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Large octavo (245 x 165 mm), publisher's full cloth with publisher's illustrated dustjacket, xix (+i), 183 (+1) pp., backside of d/j minorilly tanned (hardly disturbing), a well preserved copy. [RGRW - Religions in the Graeco-Roman World; 126]. - ISBN: 9789004102699. - [00B | SOD | oR ] 690 g.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Jews in Late Ancient Rome. Evidence of Cultural Interaction in the Roman Diaspora.
• Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden, New York, Köln, 1995.
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004102698
• ISBN 13: 9789004102699
• Binding: Hardcover
• Weight: 690 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • ANTIKE - Classical Antiquity - Religions in the...

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Synopsis

The Jews in Late Ancient Rome focusses on the Jewish community in third and fourth century Rome, and in particular on how this community related to the larger non-Jewish world that surrounded it. The book's point of departure is a refutation of the disputable thesis that Roman Jews lived in complete isolation.
The book examines Jewish archaeological remains and Jewish funerary inscriptions from Rome from various angles, and compares them with Pagan and early Christian material and epigraphical remains. In the last part the author concentrates on an enigmatic legal treatise entitled the Collatio, identifying its author and exploring the implications of this identification.
This study proposes a new way in which the relationship between Jews and non-Jews in late antiquity can be studied.

About the Author

Leonard Victor Rutgers, Ph.D. (1993) in Philosophy, Duke University, is Research Fellow of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences at the University of Utrecht, the Netherlands. He is presently engaged in the study of Jewish archaeological materials from Israel and Italy.