Jewish culture and society under the Christian Roman Empire
By: by Richard Kalmin and Seth Schwartz (ed.).
Contributors: Kalmin, Richard Lee.; Schwartz, Seth.
Series: Interdisciplinary studies in ancient culture and religion -- 3
Publisher: Peeters
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Leuven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 485
Subjects: Jews -- Holy Roman Empire -- Civilization -- Congresses.; Jews -- History -- 70-638 -- Congresses.; Judaism -- Relations -- Christianity -- Congresses.; Christianity and other religions -- Judaism -- Congresses.; Judaism -- History -- Talmudic period, 10-425 -- Congresses.; Judaism -- History -- Medieval and early modern period, 425-1789 -- Congresses.; Palestine -- History -- 70-638 -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [431]-468) and indexes.
Table of contents: value: Palestinian rabbinic attitudes to intermarriage in historical and cultural context / Christine E. Hayes; value: Slipping toward sacrament : Jews, Christians, and marriage / Michael L. Satlow; value: Contextualizing Jewish art : the synagogues at Hammat Tiberias and Sepphoris / Lee I. Levine; value: The Jewish image of God in late antiquity / Martin Goodman; value: Jewish literacy and the use of writing in late Roman Palestine / Catherine Hezser; value: Some types of Jewish-Christian interaction in late antiquity / Seth Schwartz; value: Holy men, rabbis, and demonic sages in late antiquity / Richard Kalmin; value: Lions, snakes, and asses : Palestinian Jewish holy men as masters of the animal kingdom / Eliezer Diamond; value: The Diadoche of the rabbis, or, Judah the Patriarch at Yavneh / Daniel Boyarin; value: Hegemony and its discontents : rabbis as a late antique provincial population / Hayim Lapin; value: "Tragedies naturally performed" : fatal charades, parodia sacra, and the death of Titus / Joshua Levinson; value: Justinian's novella 146 between Jews and Christians / Leonard V. Rutgers; value: Jewish and "judaizing" eschatologies in Jerome / Wolfram Kinzig.