The Jews in late ancient Rome : : evidence of cultural interaction in the Roman diaspora / / by Leonard Victor Rutgers.

• Superior document: Religions in the Graeco-Roman world, volume 126
• VerfasserIn: Rutgers, Leonard Victor,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, New York : : E.J. Brill,, 1995.
• Year of Publication: 1995
• Language: English
• Series: Religions in the Graeco-Roman world ; v. 126.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (304 pages) :; illustrations.

The Jews in Late Ancient Rome focusses on the Jewish community in third and fourth century Rome, and in particular on how this community related to the larger non-Jewish world that surrounded it. The book's point of departure is a refutation of the disputable thesis that Roman Jews lived in complete isolation. The book examines Jewish archaeological remains and Jewish funerary inscriptions from Rome from various angles, and compares them with Pagan and early Christian material and epigraphical remains. In the last part the author concentrates on an enigmatic legal treatise entitled the Collatio , identifying its author and exploring the implications of this identification. This study proposes a new way in which the relationship between Jews and non-Jews in late antiquity can be studied.

Table of Contents

Preliminary material -- THE STUDY OF JEWISH HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE: THE EXAMPLE OF THE JEWISH CATACOMBS OF ROME -- THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF JEWISH ROME: A CASE-STUDY IN THE INTERACTION BETWEEN JEWS AND NON-JEWS IN LATE ANTIQUITY -- REFERENCES TO AGE AT DEATH IN THE JEWISH FUNERARY INSCRIPTIONS FROM ROME: PROBLEMS AND PERSPECTIVES -- THE ONOMASTICON OF THE JEWISH COMMUNITY OF ROME: JEWISH VIS-A-VIS NON-JEWISH ONOMASTIC PRACTICES IN LATE ANTIQUITY -- THE JEWISH FUNERARY INSCRIPTIONS FROM ROME: LINGUISTIC FEATURES AND CONTENT -- THE LITERARY PRODUCTION OF THE JEWISH COMMUNITY OF ROME IN LATE ANTIQUITY -- CONCLUSIONS -- DIS MANIBUS IN JEWISH INSCRIPTIONS FROM ROME -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- RELIGIONS IN THE GRAECO-ROMAN WORLD.