Jewish and Christian Communal Identities in the Roman WorldYair Furstenberg 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. |
Contents
The Shared Dimensions of Jewish and Christian Communal Identities | 1 |
Part I Imperial Perspectives | 23 |
The Ptolemaic and Roman Definitions of Social Categories and the Evolution of Judean Communal Identity in Egypt | 25 |
The Roman State and Jewish Diaspora Communities in the Antonine Age | 75 |
Part II Community and the City | 85 |
Civic Identity and Christ Groups | 87 |
Pagan Jewish Christian | 116 |
The Fourth Book of Maccabees in a MultiCultural City | 134 |
Methodological Problems of Reconstructing Communities behind Texts | 167 |
Lycaonian Christianity under Roman Rule and their JewishChristian Tradition | 185 |
Part IV Community and Continuity | 201 |
The Jewish Community in Egypt before and after 117 CE in Light of Old and New Papyri | 203 |
Why Salo Baron Still Matters? | 225 |
The Use of Israel Epithets for the Addressees in First Peter | 243 |
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Part III Varieties of Communal Identities | 151 |
Why was there no Jewish Politeuma in Rome? | 153 |
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