ISAAC,B., Judaea-Palaestina, Babylon and Rome: Jews in Antiquity. 2012.
Judaea-Palaestina, Babylon and Rome: Jews in Antiquity. 1. Aufl. Mohr Siebeck, 2012.
IX, 324 S. Leinen. (Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism). ISBN 9783161516979.
The present volume brings together papers by internationally renowned specialists in Jewish history in the Roman period. Most of them were read at a conference at Tel Aviv University in 2009 in honour of Aharon Oppenheimer. The volume focuses on a number of well-defined key topics in the history of the Jews both in Judea and in the diaspora: first of all the image of Jews among non-Jews and of non-Jews among Jews; questions of social and intellectual history, mostly those dealing with the transformation that took place as a result of the failed Jewish revolts against Rome and urgent issues in modern scholarship.Studies to be mentioned here are: the relationship and cultural differences between Palestinian and Babylonian Jews; the relationship between Jews and early Christians; the evolving image of first century Judaism as projected in the early Christian sources and modern scholarship; the role of the sages in this period, conversion to Judaism, and Jewish resistance and martyrdom under Roman rule.
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