TY  - BOOK
AU  - Furstenberg,Yair
TI  - Jewish and Christian communal identities in the Roman world
T2  - Ancient Judaism and early Christianity,
SN  - 9789004321694
AV  - BL53 .J49 2016
U1  - 305.6/70937 23
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Identification (Religion)
KW  - History
KW  - To 1500
KW  - Identity (Psychology)
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Jews
KW  - Identity
KW  - Judaism
KW  - Talmudic period, 10-425
KW  - Relations
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Church history
KW  - Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600
KW  - Christianity and other religions
KW  - Civilization, Greco-Roman
KW  - Primitive and early church
KW  - fast
KW  - Talmudic period
N1  - "This volume presents revised versions of lectures given in October 2013 at a Jerusalem symposium on Jewish and Christian Communal Identities in Antiquity. The Hebrew University's Scholion Center for Interdisciplinary Research in the Humanities and Jewish Studies together with the editorial board of Brill's Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity series kindly co-sponsored the symposium in memory of our colleague Friedrich Avemarie."--Preface; Includes bibliographical references and indexes; Preliminary Material --; Introduction: The Shared Dimensions of Jewish and Christian Communal Identities; Yair Furstenberg --; The Ptolemaic and Roman Definitions of Social Categories and the Evolution of Judean Communal Identity in Egypt; Sylvie Honigman --; The Roman State and Jewish Diaspora Communities in the Antonine Age; Martin Goodman --; Civic Identity and Christ Groups; John S. Kloppenborg --; Organized Charity in the Ancient World: Pagan, Jewish, Christian; Pieter W. van der Horst --; The Fourth Book of Maccabees in a Multi-Cultural City; Tessa Rajak --; Rome and Alexandria: Why was there no Jewish Politeuma in Rome?; Daniel R. Schwartz --; From Text to Community: Methodological Problems of Reconstructing Communities behind Texts; Jörg Frey --; Lycaonian Christianity under Roman Rule and their Jewish-Christian Tradition; Cilliers Breytenbach --; The Jewish Community in Egypt before and after 117 ce in Light of Old and New Papyri; Tal Ilan --; Jewish Communities in the Roman Diaspora: Why Salo Baron Still Matters?; Seth Schwartz --; “You are a Chosen Stock . . .”: The Use of Israel Epithets for the Addressees in First Peter; Lutz Doering --; Author Index --; General Index; Available to subscribing member institutions only
N2  - Jews and Christians under the Roman Empire shared a unique sense of community. Set apart from their civic and cultic surroundings, both groups resisted complete assimilation into the dominant political and social structures. However, Jewish communities differed from their Christian counterparts in their overall patterns of response to the surrounding challenges. They exhibit diverse levels of integration into the civic fabric of the cities of the Empire and display contrary attitudes towards the creation of trans-local communal networks. The variety of local case studies examined in this volume offers an integrated image of the multiple factors, both internal and external, which determined the role of communal identity in creating a sense of belonging among Jews and Christians under Imperial constraints
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004321694
ER  -