The Jews in Late Ancient Rome
Evidence of cultural interaction in the Roman Diaspora
Published on 1. April 1995
Book
Leather / fine binding
XX, 283 pages
978-90-04-10269-9 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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.
Reviews / Votes
'It is truly a tour de force...Rutgers deserves the highest praise for his comprehensiveness, thoroughness, and accuracy in examining the epigraphic evidence. His work marks a tremendous advance over that of Leon.'Louis H. Feldman, The Jewish Quarterly Review, 1996.
'The linguistic questions constitute only one strand in this richly complex and fascinating book. Dr. Rutgers is to be congratuled on his achievement, and we must hope that he will continue his investigation of these important and too-little examined questions.'
Nicholas de Lange, Bulletin of Judaeo-Greek Studies, 1996.
'This book is an important and useful addition to the literature on Roman Jewry in the middle Empire.'
Paul Corby Finney, Jahrbuch fuer Antike und Christentum, 1998.
Winner of the 1996 Keetje Hodshon Prize, awarded by the Dutch Society of Sciences.
More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Cloth
With dust jacket
Illustrations
Fig., Tab.
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Weight
1 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-10269-9 (9789004102699)
Schweitzer Classification
Person
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.