Rome : : an empire of many nations : new perspectives on ethnic diversity and cultural identity / / edited by Jonathan J. Price, Margalit Finkelberg, Yuval Shahar.

• Superior document: Humanities
• TeilnehmendeR: Price, Jonathan J.,; Finkelberg, Margalit,; Shaḥar, Yuval, 1953-
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge : : Cambridge University Press,, 2022.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Humanities
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 410 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s).
• Notes: Originally published in 2021, ISBN 9781108479455, Reissued as Open Access in 2022.; Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 Apr 2022).

The center of gravity in Roman studies has shifted far from the upper echelons of government and administration in Rome or the Emperor's court to the provinces and the individual. The multi-disciplinary studies presented in this volume reflect the turn in Roman history to the identities of ethnic groups and even single individuals who lived in Rome's vast multinational empire. The purpose is less to discover another element in the Roman Empire's 'success' in governance than to illuminate the variety of individual experience in its own terms. The chapters here, reflecting a wide spectrum of professional expertise, range across the many cultures, languages, religions and literatures of the Roman Empire, with a special focus on the Jews as a test-case for the larger issues. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Table of Contents

Ethnicity and identity in the Roman Empire -- From Rome to Constantinople / Benjamin Isaac -- The Imperial Senate / Werner Eck -- Ethnic types and stereotypes in ancient Latin idioms / Daniela Dueck -- Keti, son of Masawalat : ethnicity and empire / Brent D. Shaw -- Ethnicity and identity in the Roman Empire -- Roman reception of the Trojan War / Margalit Finkelberg -- Claiming Roman origins : Greek cities and the Roman colonial pattern / Cédric Brélaz -- Roman theologies in the cities of Italy and the provinces / John Scheid -- The involvement of provincial cities in the administration of school teaching / Ido Israelowich -- Many nations, one night? Historical aspects of the night in the Roman Empire / Angelos Chaniotis --

Ethnicity and identity in the Roman Empire : the case of the Jews -- Religious pluralism in the Roman Empire : did Judaism test the limits of Roman tolerance? / Erich S. Gruen -- Rome's attitude to Jews and Judea after the Great Rebellion-- beyond raison d'état? / Alexander Yakobson -- Between ethnos and populus : the boundaries of being a Jew / Youval Rotman -- Local identities of synagogue communities in the Roman Empire / Jonathan J. Price -- The good the bad and the middling : Roman emperors in Talmudic literature / Yuval Shahar -- The Severans and Rabbi Judah ha-Nasi / Aharon Oppenheimer -- Iudaea/Palaestina -- The Roman Legionary Base in Legio-Kefar 'Othnay-- the evidence from the small finds / Yotam Tepper -- The camp of the Legion X Fretensis and the emergence of Aelia Capitolina / Shlomit Weksler-Bdolah.