Identity of the diaspora
Subtitle: Jews in Asia Minor in the Roman imperial period
By: Krystyna Stebnicka ; English translation by Maria Kantor
Contributors: Kantor, Maria, 1959- translator
Edition: Wydanie I.
Series: The journal of juristic papyrology. Supplements -- volume XXVI; Journal of juristic papyrology -- v. 26.
Publisher: University of Warsaw, Faculty of Law and Administration, Chair of Roman Law and the Law of Antiquity; University of Warsaw, Institute of Archaeology, Department of Papyrology; The Raphael Taubenschlag Foundation
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Warsaw
Language: eng; pol
Number of pages: 363
ISBN-13: 9788393842568
Subjects: Jews; History; Jewish diaspora; Judaism; Post-exilic period (Judaism); Juden; Identität; Römerzeit; Spätantike; Synagoge
Description: "Living in the diaspora is deeply rooted within the Jewish identity: dispersion of their own people and desire to return to the land of the ancestors both formed the identity of those Jews who lived away from Palestine as well as of those who dwelled in Palestine and in the later Israel. The Jews must have dealt with a predominantly negative image of the diaspora, shelilat ha-galut, from the earliest of times, but it eventually happened to be an important formative factor of their nationality. Although the idea of being ‘the People of the Book’, who could only nd [?] home in the sacred text and not in some particular land, 1 [it] might seem attractive at [fi]rst, the diaspora has nonetheless been seen as a form of exile and a complete loss of homeland. Such loss, quite understandably, gave birth to hope for return which culminated in the Zionist movement of the 20th century."--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-359) and index.