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

106 CHAPTER THREE governors and their staff) who ruled by complicated, largely ad hoc mixtures of Roman, Greco-oriental, and loc ...

RABBIS AND PATRIARCHS ON THE MARGINS 107 But the two new provinces in which the effects of direct Roman rule can be traced more ...

108 CHAPTER THREE legions were surely responsible for the spurt in road construction after 69, which among other things eased ex ...

RABBIS AND PATRIARCHS ON THE MARGINS 109 in the late first century, gives an idea of the gloom prevailing among some of the lite ...

110 CHAPTER THREE the surgical restoration of the foreskin, were recircumcised in the days of Bar Kokhba; the most plausible exp ...

RABBIS AND PATRIARCHS ON THE MARGINS 111 There is general agreement, however, that the political impact of the Destruc- tion sho ...

112 CHAPTER THREE second through fourth centuries, it was mainly the city councils and other urban and rural magnates who contro ...

RABBIS AND PATRIARCHS ON THE MARGINS 113 estingly backward-looking legal categories as purity and priestly gifts.^26 This presti ...

114 CHAPTER THREE contacts outside Palestine; with a certain amount of hard selling and help from wealthy and sympathetic diaspo ...

RABBIS AND PATRIARCHS ON THE MARGINS 115 It also reports patriarchal exercise of authority over judicial appointments. One obscu ...

116 CHAPTER THREE Palestinian Talmud also describes rabbinic grandees appointing their needy fellows to communal posts, interven ...

RABBIS AND PATRIARCHS ON THE MARGINS 117 Honorius did in fact briefly cancel the right to collect the tax,^43 as Julian had neve ...

118 CHAPTER THREE rotten at the core and on the brink of transformation. More telling, or less obviously tendentious, may be Jer ...

RABBIS AND PATRIARCHS ON THE MARGINS 119 from curial duties.^52 It would be naive to suppose that wealthy Jews failed without ex ...

120 CHAPTER THREE to an account of patriarchal and rabbinic history—it is inadequate. Archaeo- logical remains impose the most i ...

RABBIS AND PATRIARCHS ON THE MARGINS 121 the perspective of the Jewishprimatesthemselves, this division of authority was highly ...

122 CHAPTER THREE this the intercessor we petitioned you for?”^60 He said, “By your lives! I’ve given you a man like myself!”... ...

RABBIS AND PATRIARCHS ON THE MARGINS 123 the story is important evidence that people in rabbinic circles were in the third and f ...

124 CHAPTER THREE rashimmakes it likely that the rabbinic movement was mainly urban.^65 When villages are mentioned in the Pales ...

RABBIS AND PATRIARCHS ON THE MARGINS 125 The patriarchs of the fourth century may have been less interested in pro- moting their ...