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

126 CHAPTER THREE of their prosperity and populousness in the later fourth century (which is to say, they had more available sur ...

RABBIS AND PATRIARCHS ON THE MARGINS 127 tury take for granted, and so may have functioned to prescribe, an organized clerical h ...

128 CHAPTER THREE striking that some Diaspora communities (we do not know how many) actually submitted, voluntarily, to the patr ...

FOUR JEWS OR PAGANS? THE JEWS AND THE GRECO-ROMAN CITIES OF PALESTINE I F THE RABBIS and their Torah were marginal, and the cons ...

130 CHAPTER FOUR Between the Bar Kokhba revolt and the christianization of the empire, the main areas of Jewish settlement inclu ...

JEWS OR PAGANS? 131 possibly after, there is a nearly complete gap in information from Vespasian’s invasioninthatyearuntilthefou ...

132 CHAPTER FOUR Lower Galilee is quite well attested for the high imperial period. Rabbinic literature, especially the Tosefta ...

JEWS OR PAGANS? 133 probably be added legionary troops, for although their fixed presence in or near the city is not mentioned i ...

134 CHAPTER FOUR Yonah, the archaeologist and historian, may serve as an exemplary figure be- causeofhistremendousinfluenceonthe ...

JEWS OR PAGANS? 135 less straightforward way aspects of, and are evidence for, the popular Judaism practiced for centuries throu ...

136 CHAPTER FOUR ted that the high imperial Palestinian cities were participants in a religious cultureofenduringvitalityifperha ...

JEWS OR PAGANS? 137 Coins were minted only occasionally, when the need arose to put more small coins into circulation or when th ...

138 CHAPTER FOUR later, another coin with a “Jewish” reverse (or at any rate a reverse common on earlier Jewish coins though als ...

JEWS OR PAGANS? 139 ors with Jewish types and then switched to pagan types at thebeginningof Trajan’s reign.^34 Lydda-Diospolis ...

140 CHAPTER FOUR alone.Nevertheless,therecanbenodoubtthatinallothercitiesoftheRoman Easttherewasatleastaroughcorrespondencebetwe ...

JEWS OR PAGANS? 141 imagesonthecoinsistakenasproofofthepaganismofthecitycouncils,how are we to understand the mixture of Jewish ...

142 CHAPTER FOUR above,perhapsapieceofflatterydirectedattheempress)anddeterminedthe character of the coinage.^44 Insum,itwouldbe ...

JEWS OR PAGANS? 143 suggested, be little reason to doubt the presence of temples in the cities de- spite their absence in the ar ...

144 CHAPTER FOUR a seating capacity of 4,000 to 5,000 was discovered earlier in the century and has recently been reexcavated; t ...

JEWS OR PAGANS? 145 smallbronzealtar.^53 Theseitemswereobviouslyusedfordomesticratherthan civic cult or decoration; in the case ...