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

46 CHAPTER ONE the patronage of the royal women and high priests and vying with each other for a voice in temple affairs.^68 Her ...

POLITICS AN DSOCIETY 47 undertoo kalmost no public construction in the city. The residential quarters grew, and so the city wall ...

48 CHAPTER ONE Herod died in 4B.C.E., and a series of small-scale uprisings at once broke out. Augustus decided to divide Herod’ ...

TWO RELIGION AND SOCIETY BEFORE 70C.E. I BEGIN MY ACCOUNT of Palestinian Jewish society and the impact of foreign rule on its in ...

50 CHAPTER TWO question), they would likely have answered that it was the worship of their one God, in the one Temple of Jerusal ...

RELIGION AND SOCIETY BEFORE 70C.E 51 and obscure series of historical processes, which probably reached a peak in Judaea only af ...

52 CHAPTER TWO their subversive character and become a naturalized part of the local version of Judaism—a body of practice rough ...

RELIGION AND SOCIETY BEFORE 70C.E 53 and its staff is indicated by a series of letters, rescripts, and memoranda, quoted by Jose ...

54 CHAPTER TWO There arealways grounds forsuspecting the reliability ofofficial documents quotedbyhistoriographers.InJosephus’sc ...

RELIGION AND SOCIETY BEFORE 70C.E 55 ochus IV’s denial of the Judaeans’ right to live according to their own laws indicates that ...

56 CHAPTER TWO addition to the documents, several reports of Josephus concerning the first centuryC.E. indicate that the Roman a ...

RELIGION AND SOCIETY BEFORE 70C.E 57 ancient Judaism—admittedly, as an understandable and decent reaction to the hostility that ...

58 CHAPTER TWO nalconformity with Deuteronomic prescription.^24 Josephus’s incidental no- tice that the people of Lydda, in nort ...

RELIGION AND SOCIETY BEFORE 70C.E 59 The Symbolic Significance of Torah and Temple By the first centuryC.E., the Temple and Tora ...

60 CHAPTER TWO that 2 Maccabees, concerned as it is with the temple, warns against excessive reverence for its structure (5:19–2 ...

RELIGION AND SOCIETY BEFORE 70C.E 61 Jews, or Judaeans, marched to Caesarea and threatened the Roman governor with an uprising u ...

62 CHAPTER TWO Temple (and the Torah, too) most probably was less important, actually if not symbolically, for non-Judaean than ...

RELIGION AND SOCIETY BEFORE 70C.E 63 thought about them. In attempting to do this, we must first of all fall back on the content ...

64 CHAPTER TWO a constitution (politeia), as Jewish apologists and Greek diplomats said, al- though it certainly functioned as o ...

RELIGION AND SOCIETY BEFORE 70C.E 65 reasonable to suppose that the ideological disharmony was itself the product of a compromis ...