TY - BOOK AU - Goodman,Martin TI - Judaism in the Roman world: collected essays T2 - Brill eBook titles 2007 SN - 9789047410614 AV - BM176 .G63 2007 U1 - 296.09/014 22 PY - 2007/// CY - Boston PB - Brill KW - Romeinse oudheid KW - gtt KW - Judaism KW - History KW - Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D KW - Judaïsme KW - Histoire KW - 10-425 (Période talmudique) KW - 586 av. J.-C.-210 (Période postexilique) KW - Romeinse rijk N1 - Includes bibliographical references and indexes; Preliminary material; M. Goodman --; Chapter One. Early judaism; M. Goodman --; Chapter Two. Identity and authority in ancient judaism; M. Goodman --; Chapter Three. Josephus And Variety In First-Century judaism; M. Goodman --; Chapter Four. The temple in first-century CE judaism; M. Goodman --; Chapter Five. The pilgrimage economy of Jerusalem in the second temple period; M. Goodman --; Chapter Six. Sacred scripture and ‘defiling the hands’; M. Goodman --; Chapter Seven. Texts, scribes and power in roman Judaea; M. Goodman --; Chapter Eight. Jewish proselytizing in the first century; M. Goodman --; Chapter Nine. A note on Josephus, The pharisees and ancestral tradition; M. Goodman --; Chapter Ten. The place of the sadducees in first-century judaism; M. Goodman --; Chapter Eleven. A note on the Qumran sectarians, the Essenes and Josephus; M. Goodman --; Chapter Twelve. The persecution of Paul; Diaspora Jews --; Chapter Thirteen. Sadducees and Essenes after 70 CE; M. Goodman --; Chapter Fourteen. The function of minim in early rabbinic judaism; M. Goodman --; Chapter Fifteen. Modeling the “parting of the ways”; M. Goodman --; Chapter Sixteen. Kosher olive oil in antiquity; M. Goodman --; Chapter Seventeen. The jewish image of God in late antiquity; M. Goodman --; Chapter Eighteen. Sacred space in Diaspora judaism; M. Goodman --; Chapter Nineteen. Jews and judaism in the mediterranean Diaspora in the late-roman period:The limitations of evidence; M. Goodman --; Index of names and subjects; M. Goodman --; Index of ancient literature; M. Goodman; Available to subscribing member institutions only N2 - 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. *** 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. *** This book should be particularly useful to students of ancient Judaism and those interested in Christian origins UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/ej.9789004153097.i-275 ER -