Routledge Handbook of Jews and Judaism in Late Antiquity, Hardcover

by Catherine Hezser

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Routledge Handbook of Jews and Judaism in Late Antiquity, Hardcover by Hezser, Catherine (EDT), ISBN 1138241229, ISBN-13 9781138241220, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US This volume focuses on the major issues and debates in the study of Jews and Judaism in late antiquity (third to seventh century .), providing cutting-edge surveys of the state of scholarship, main topics and research questions, methodological approaches, and avenues for future research. Based on both Jewish and non-Jewish literary and material sources, this volume takes an interdisciplinary approach involving historians of ancient Judaism, scholars of rabbinic literature, archaeologists, epigraphers, art historians, and Byzantinists. Developments within Jewish society and culture are viewed within the respective regional, political, cultural, and socioeconomic contexts in which they took place. Special focus is given to the impact of the Christianization of the Roman Empire on Jews, from administrative, legal, social, and cultural points of view. The contributors examine how the confrontation with Christianity changed Jewish practices, perceptions, and organizational structures, such as, for example, the emergence of local Jewish communities around synagogues as central religious spaces. Special chapters are devoted to the eastern and western Jewish Diaspora in Late Antiquity, especially Sasanian Persia but also Roman Italy, Egypt, Syria and Arabia, North Africa, and Asia Minor, to provide a comprehensi

• Publisher: Routledge, Chapman & Hall, Incorporated
• Year: 2021
• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9781138241220
• Condition: Fine

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