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 com...

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.