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Jewish and Christian Communal Identities in the Roman World

By Yair Furstenberg

Book information

Publisher
Brill Academic Publishers
Year
2016
ISBN
9004321217, 9789004321212
ISSN
1871-6636
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1398618 bytes)
Series
Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity 94
Pages
xii+286\299
Topic
Religion
Orientation
yes
Paginated
yes
Scanned
portrait
Time added
2016-08-07 22:19:06
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Description

Jews and Christians under the Roman Empire shared a unique sense of community. Set apart from their civic and cultic surroundings, both groups resisted complete assimilation into the dominant political and social structures. However, Jewish communities differed from their Christian counterparts in their overall patterns of response to the surrounding challenges. They exhibit diverse levels of integration into the civic fabric of the cities of the Empire and display contrary attitudes towards the creation of trans-local communal networks. The variety of local case studies examined in this volume offers an integrated image of the multiple factors, both internal and external, which determined the role of communal identity in creating a sense of belonging among Jews and Christians under Imperial constraints.

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