The Boundaries of Jewishness in the Southern Levant 200 BCE–132 CE : : Power, Strategies, and Ethnic Configurations / / John Van Maaren.
Recent research has considered how changing imperial contexts influence conceptions of Jewishness among ruling elites (esp. Eckhardt, Ethnos und Herrschaft, 2013). This study integrates other, often marginal, conceptions with elite perspectives. It uses the ethnic boundary making model, an empirical...
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Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2022] ©2022 |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Studia Judaica : Forschungen zur Wissenschaft des Judentums ,
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (XVIII, 316 p.) |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction and Methodology -- 2 Jewishness under the Seleucids (200–129 BCE) -- 3 Jewishness under the Hasmoneans (129–63 BCE) -- 4 Jewishness under the Romans (63 BCE–132 CE) -- 5 Conclusion -- 6 Appendix 1 -- Bibliography -- Index of subjects -- Index of ancient sources -- Index of modern authors |
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Summary: | Recent research has considered how changing imperial contexts influence conceptions of Jewishness among ruling elites (esp. Eckhardt, Ethnos und Herrschaft, 2013). This study integrates other, often marginal, conceptions with elite perspectives. It uses the ethnic boundary making model, an empirically based sociological model, to link macro-level characteristics of the social field with individual agency in ethnic construction. It uses a wide range of written sources as evidence for constructions of Jewishness and relates these to a local-specific understanding of demographic and institutional characteristics, informed by material culture. The result is a diachronic study of how institutional changes under Seleucid, Hasmonean, and Early Roman rule influenced the ways that members of the ruling elite, retainer class, and marginalized groups presented their preferred visions of Jewishness. These sometimes-competing visions advance different strategies to maintain, rework, or blur the boundaries between Jews and others. The study provides the next step toward a thick description of Jewishness in antiquity by introducing needed systematization for relating written sources from different social strata with their contexts. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9783110787450 9783110766820 9783110993899 9783110994810 9783110994544 9783110994537 |
ISSN: | 0585-5306 ; |
DOI: | 10.1515/9783110787450 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | John Van Maaren. |