Judaism in the Roman world : collected essays / / by Martin Goodman.

• Superior document: Ancient Judaism and early Christianity Arbeiten zur Geschichte des antiken Judentums und des Urchristentums, v. 66
• Author: Goodman, Martin, 1953-
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: English
• Series: Arbeiten zur Geschichte des antiken Judentums und des Urchristentums ; Bd. 66.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (287 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Judaism in the Roman World deals with the religious lives of Jews in the Roman world from late Second Temple times to the Later Roman Empire. *** The studies collected here analyse a series of issues important in the development of Judaism in this period: the role of the Temple and pilgrimage in the first century CE; the attitude of Jews to the physical texts of the Torah and to the scribes who produced them; the extent of variety and change within Judaism before and after 70 CE and the nature of the evidence for particular types of Judaism; the role of synagogues and images in Jewish worship; and relations between Jews and Christians in the early centuries. *** This book should be particularly useful to students of ancient Judaism and those interested in Christian origins.

Table of Contents

Preliminary material / M. Goodman -- Chapter One. Early judaism / M. Goodman -- Chapter Two. Identity and authority in ancient judaism / M. Goodman -- Chapter Three. Josephus And Variety In First-Century judaism / M. Goodman -- Chapter Four. The temple in first-century CE judaism / M. Goodman -- Chapter Five. The pilgrimage economy of Jerusalem in the second temple period / M. Goodman -- Chapter Six. Sacred scripture and ‘defiling the hands’ / M. Goodman -- Chapter Seven. Texts, scribes and power in roman Judaea / M. Goodman -- Chapter Eight. Jewish proselytizing in the first century / M. Goodman -- Chapter Nine. A note on Josephus, The pharisees and ancestral tradition / M. Goodman -- Chapter Ten. The place of the sadducees in first-century judaism / M. Goodman -- Chapter Eleven. A note on the Qumran sectarians, the Essenes and Josephus / M. Goodman -- Chapter Twelve. The persecution of Paul / Diaspora Jews -- Chapter Thirteen. Sadducees and Essenes after 70 CE / M. Goodman -- Chapter Fourteen. The function of minim in early rabbinic judaism / M. Goodman -- Chapter Fifteen. Modeling the “parting of the ways” / M. Goodman -- Chapter Sixteen. Kosher olive oil in antiquity / M. Goodman -- Chapter Seventeen. The jewish image of God in late antiquity / M. Goodman -- Chapter Eighteen. Sacred space in Diaspora judaism / M. Goodman -- Chapter Nineteen. Jews and judaism in the mediterranean Diaspora in the late-roman period:The limitations of evidence / M. Goodman -- Index of names and subjects / M. Goodman -- Index of ancient literature / M. Goodman.