The center of gravity in Roman studies has shifted far from the upper echelons of government and administration in Rome or the Emperor's court to the provinces and the individual. The multi-disciplinary studies presented in this volume reflect the turn in Roman history to the identities of ethnic groups and even single individuals who lived in Rome's vast multinational empire. The purpose is less to discover another element in the Roman Empire's 'success' in governance than to illuminate the variety of individual experience in its own terms. The chapters here, reflecting a wide spectrum of professional expertise, range across the many cultures, languages, religions and literatures of the Roman Empire, with a special focus on the Jews as a test-case for the larger issues. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Explores the nature of the vast multinational Roman Empire through the identities of ethnic groups and the experiences of single individuals. The chapters range across the many cultures, languages, religions and literatures of the Empire, with a special focus on the Jews as a test-case for the larger issues.
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'I recommend this scholarly work for anyone interested in Roman studies and specifically curious about the diversity within the Roman Empire. The essays include a breadth of disciplines and perspectives and a wide range of topics that invites further investigation and study. The information was accessible, and even nonspecialists in certain fields or students simply interested in learning more will find something to appreciate and enjoy.' Rubin and Yi James and McClain, The Review of Biblical Literature ' advances interdisciplinary, cross-cultural, and inclusive approaches to the ancient Mediterranean world, notwithstanding the abundance of perspectives and methodologies that remain to be explored.' Nandini Pandey, H-Soz-Kult
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A panoramic and colourful view of the many ethnic identities, languages and cultures composing the Roman Empire.
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| Acknowledgments |
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| Introduction |
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PART I ETHNICITY AND IDENTITY IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE |
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1 From Rome to Constantinople |
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2 The Imperial Senate: Center of a Multinational Imperium |
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3 Ethnic Types and Stereotypes in Ancient Latin Idioms |
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4 Keti, Son of Maswalat: Ethnicity and Empire |
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PART II CULTURE AND IDENTITY IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE |
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5 Roman Reception of the Trojan War |
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6 Claiming Roman Origins: Greek Cities and the Roman Colonial Pattern |
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7 Roman Theologies in the Roman Cities of Italy and the Provinces |
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8 The Involvement of Provincial Cities in the Administration of School Teaching |
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9 Many Nations, One Night? Historical Aspects of the Night in the Roman Empire |
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PART III ETHNICITY AND IDENTITY IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE: THE CASE OF THE JEWS |
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10 Religious Pluralism in the Roman Empire: Did Judaism Test the Limits of Roman Tolerance? |
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11 Rome's Attitude to Jews after the Great Rebellion - Beyond Raison d'etat? |
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12 Between ethnos and populus: The Boundaries of Being a Jew |
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13 Local Identities of Synagogue Communities in the Roman Empire |
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14 The Good, the Bad and the Middling: Roman Emperors in Talmudic Literature |
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15 The Severans and Rabbi Judah ha-Nasi |
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PART IV IUDAEA/PALAESTINA |
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16 The Roman Legionary Base in Legio-Kefar Othnay -- The Evidence from the Small Finds |
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17 The Camp of the Legion X Fretensis and the Starting Point of Aelia Capitolina |
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| Bibliography |
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| General Index |
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Jonathan J. Price is the Fred and Helen Lessing Professor of Ancient History at Tel Aviv University, and the author of many studies on Greek and Roman historiography and Jewish history and epigraphy of the Roman period. His publications include Jerusalem Under Siege: The Collapse of the Jewish State, 66-70 C.E. (1992), Thucydides and Internal War (Cambridge, 2001), and editions of about 3000 Jewish inscriptions in Corpus Inscriptionum Iudaeae/Palaestinae, Volumes I-V (2010-2020). Margalit Finkelberg is Professor of Classics (emeritus) at Tel Aviv University and a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities. She has authored The Birth of Literary Fiction in Ancient Greece (1998), Greeks and Pre-Greeks: Aegean Prehistory and Greek Heroic Tradition (Cambridge, 2005), Homer (2014; Hebrew), The Gatekeeper: Narrative Voice in Plato's Dialogues (2019), Homer and Early Greek Epic: Collected Essays (2020), and numerous scholarly articles. She is the editor of The Homer Encyclopedia (3 vols.; 2011). Yuval Shahar is Senior Lecturer in Jewish History at Tel Aviv University. His published studies on the history, historiography and historical geography of Palestine in the Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine periods, include Josephus Geographicus: The Classical Context of Geography in Josephus (2004).
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