Religious toleration and persecution in ancient Rome
By: by Simeon L. Guterman.
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Published: 1971
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780837139364
Subjects: Nationalism -- Rome; Judaism -- Relations -- Roman; Persecution -- History -- Early church, ca. 30-600; Nationalism -- Religious aspects; Rome -- Religion
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
"Originally published in 1951 by Aiglon Press Ltd., London. First Greenwood reprinting 1971." - T.p. verso.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Roman religious policy.; title: Exclusive character of Roman citizenship; title: Roman religion in relation to citizenship; title: The problem of new divinities; title: The private citizen and the worship of unauthorized divinities; title: Existence of a law punishing such worship is disputed; title: The persecution of Christianity in relation to previous persecutions; title: The crime of Lese Religion : question of its existence; title: Conclusion : Application to Judaism; title: Judaea.; title: Judaism originally a national system rather than a religion; title: Changes in character of Judaism resulting from its passage from East to West; title: Effects of Faedus on Jews in Rome and in the East; title: Existence of the Jewish "Nation" in the restricted sense of term; title: The Diaspora : east and west.; title: National character of Jewish settlement in the Greek cities; title: Jewish community in Rome compared with that of Alexandria or Antioch; title: Effect of this political evolution on the social and religious life of the Jews; title: Judaism as religio licita.; title: Distinction between religio licita and natio; title: Theories of Mommsen and of Juster; title: The Acta of Josephus; title: Sources of confusion : religion and nation; title: Fiscus Judaicus; title: Meaning of term religio licita; title: Christianity : basis of persecution religious as well as national; title: The synagogues and the collegia.; title: Terms employed in descriptions of synagogues and collegia; title: Resemblances between synagogues and collegia; title: Differences between the Jewish associations of the East and the West; title: Objections to the identification of collegia and synagogues; title: The synagogues become centres of unrest at times; title: Conclusion