Judaism in the Roman World: Collected Essays (Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity, 66) - Hardcover

Goodman, Martin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004153098 ISBN 13: 9789004153097

Publisher: Brill, 2006

Synopsis

Judaism in the Roman World deals with the religious lives of Jews in the Roman world from late Second Temple times to the Later Roman Empire.
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The studies collected here analyse a series of issues important in the development of Judaism in this period: the role of the Temple and pilgrimage in the first century CE; the attitude of Jews to the physical texts of the Torah and to the scribes who produced them; the extent of variety and change within Judaism before and after 70 CE and the nature of the evidence for particular types of Judaism; the role of synagogues and images in Jewish worship; and relations between Jews and Christians in the early centuries.
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This book should be particularly useful to students of ancient Judaism and those interested in Christian origins.

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About the Author

Martin Goodman, D.Phil (Oxford 1980) in Ancient History, is Professor of Jewish Studies in the University of Oxford and Fellow of Wolfson College. He is also a Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies and a Fellow of the British Academy. He has published extensively on Jewish history and was editor of The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Studies (OUP).

Edition details

• Publisher: Brill
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004153098
• ISBN 13: 9789004153097
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288