A Companion Roman Religion - Spiritual Minds

hesitate to name their profession on their funerary inscription or in dedications and gifts they offered (e.g. AE1925, 120 Rome; ...

writer of medical treatises, is supposed to have compared Jesus Christ’s miracles with those of the sorcerers (goetes) and the “ ...

river Tigris because that day was one of the unfortunate ones which they call “black days,” for on it an army engaging with the ...

and dream interpreters would have cashed in twice. In the aftermath of the alleged conspiracy of Libo Drusus, the senate expelle ...

PART V Different Religious Identities ...

CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE Roman Diaspora Judaism Jack N. Lightstone Methodological, Conceptual, and Theoretical Issues Scope of this c ...

beginning of the third century and onward (see, for example, Levine 2000; Frey 1936 –52; Noy 1993–5; Noy and Horbury 1992; Noy a ...

withdrawn in the early fifth century, and by the beginning of the sixth, Jewish decu- rions must perform civic duties, but they ...

Finally, as we shall discuss at length below, Jews across Italy, Greece-Macedonia, Asia Minor, the northern Levant, and Roman Af ...

It also follows from the aforementioned that any account of Judaism and Judaic life in the Greco-Roman Diaspora must of necessit ...

community roles and offices (Frey 1936 –52 [1975]; Noy 1993–5; Noy and Horbury 1992; Noy and Bloedhorn 2004; Noy et al. 2004; se ...

of much that is only hinted at in earlier evidence concerning the organization of Jewish life within, and the participation of J ...

inform our selection of salient evidence, our classification and organization of the data, and our articulation of what the evid ...

reminiscent of a level of authority it in fact no longer has. At the same time, the early emperors’ powers are defined with refe ...

inhabitants of Greco-Roman cities, of whatever religious or ethnic stripe, lived “cheek by jowl” with one another in crowded urb ...

The first two themes deal with Roman Diaspora Judaism’s general appropriation and adaptation of late biblical Judaism and that b ...

religion without a Temple and sacrifice in the aftermath of the Temple’s destruc- tion. Rather Roman Diaspora Judaism developed ...

That not only was the content of the scrolls deemed holy, but also the scrolls themselves were perceived as holy objects, is ind ...

1:6 1 There are ten [levels] of holy [territory]: 2 The Land of Israel is more holy than all of the [other] lands. 3 And what is ...

According to the late biblical tradition of the Land of Israel, the maintenance of these concentric circles of holiness required ...