Imperialism and Jewish Society, 200 B.C.E. to 640 C.E. - Seth Schwartz

266 CHAPTER NINE had set into the liturgy, so that olderpiyyutcycles were frequently reused— fortunately for us, because this gu ...

JUDAIZATION 267 stood them? But thepiyyutwas not simply read: it was performed, probably almost always sung, sometimes with chor ...

268 CHAPTER NINE argument of Shulamit Elitzur (n 61) thatqedushtaotof the “classical period” usually contained several relativel ...

JUDAIZATION 269 The lamps of Edom were mighty and flared forth/ the lamps of Zion flickered and were extinguished. The lamps of ...

270 CHAPTER NINE glory, by listening to the biblical readings and their poetic adaptations, will yet see its restoration .The vi ...

JUDAIZATION 271 alphabeticpiyyut, sometimes thought “preclassical” (i.e., fifth rather than sixth century) because of the absenc ...

272 CHAPTER NINE synagogue decoration itself, that the ritual of the synagogue, in this case the communal mourning on the Ninth ...

JUDAIZATION 273 tion .The Jews once again began to construct their symbolic world around the Torah, the (memory of the) temple, ...

274 CHAPTER NINE Payyetanimwere of course employed by communities, and their poetry was learned, obscure, allusive, and performe ...

TEN THE SYNAGOGUE AND THE IDEOLOGY OF COMMUNITY L ATE ANTIQUE JEWS regarded themselves as constituting religious communities and ...

276 CHAPTER TEN The inscriptions found among the remains of synagogues constitute our main evidence for the late antique local r ...

SYNAGOGUE AND COMMUNITY 277 other differences between Jews, and such differences in fact are an important aspect of the late ant ...

278 CHAPTER TEN an easily traversed wadi or small valley (e.g., Meiron and Horvat Shema, or Khirbet Natur and Khirbet Shura) or ...

SYNAGOGUE AND COMMUNITY 279 which goods, services, and coins flowed at a brisk pace, the entirety corres- pondingly bound togeth ...

280 CHAPTER TEN inhabitants had to sell part of their wheat crop to fund the production of a mosaic pavement.^14 This implies th ...

SYNAGOGUE AND COMMUNITY 281 There is a trivial reason for the location of the dedicatory inscriptions: they commemorate donation ...

282 CHAPTER TEN The synagogue inscriptions are obsessed with memorialization, more so than is usual in dedicatory inscriptions.^ ...

SYNAGOGUE AND COMMUNITY 283 the synagogue inscriptions were public in a way that dedicatory inscriptions in temples were not. Th ...

284 CHAPTER TEN InscriptionsasSocialActs:EuergetismandEgalitarianism Like the biblical and rabbinic communities of Israel, the i ...

SYNAGOGUE AND COMMUNITY 285 rai—roughly the equivalent ofqorbanot(offerings, or sacrifices) and in Ara- maic,mizwata(i.e.,mitzvo ...