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Jews and Their Roman Rivals

Pagan Rome's Challenge to Israel

By: Katell Berthelot

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Jews and Their Roman Rivals

Pagan Rome's Challenge to Israel

By: Katell Berthelot

How encounters with the Roman Empire compelled the Jews of antiquity to rethink their conceptions of Israel and the Torah Throughout their history, Jews have lived under a succession of imperial powers, from Assyria and Babylonia to Persia and the Hellenistic kingdoms. Jews and Their Roman Rivals shows how the Roman Empire posed a unique challenge to Jewish thinkers such as Philo, Josephus, and the Palestinian rabbis, who both resisted and internalized Roman standards and imperial ideology. Katell Berthelot traces how, long before the empire became Christian, Jews came to perceive Israel and Rome as rivals competing for supremacy. Both considered their laws to be the most perfect ever written, and both believed they were a most pious people who had been entrusted with a divine mission to bring order and peace to the world. Berthelot argues that the rabbinic identification of Rome with Esau, Israel's twin brother, reflected this sense of rivalry. She discusses how this challenge transformed ancient Jewish ideas about military power and the use of force, law and jurisdiction, and membership in the people of Israel. Berthelot argues that Jewish thinkers imitated the Romans in some cases and proposed competing models in others. Shedding new light on Jewish thought in antiquity, Jews and Their Roman Rivals reveals how Jewish encounters with pagan Rome gave rise to crucial evolutions in the ways Jews conceptualized the Torah and conversion to Judaism.

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Princeton University Press

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Jerusalem

History of a Global City

By: Katell Berthelot,Julien Loiseau,Yann Potin

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Jerusalem

History of a Global City

By: Katell Berthelot,Julien Loiseau,Yann Potin

Introduction : spirits of places, fractures in time : toward a new history of Jerusalem -- The birth of a Holy City : 4000 BCE to second century CE -- Roman pantheon, Christian reliquary, and Jewish traditions : second to seventh centuries -- In the empire of the Caliphs : seventh to eleventh centuries -- Jerusalem, capital of the Frankish kingdom : 1099-1187 -- From Saladin to Süleyman : the Islamization of the Holy City, 1187-1566 -- The peace of the Ottomans : sixteenth to nineteenth centuries -- The impossible capital? : Jerusalem in the twentieth century -- Conclusion : the memory of the dead, the history of the living.

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Univ of California Press

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0520299906

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Jews and Their Roman Rivals

Pagan Rome's Challenge to Israel

By: Katell Berthelot

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Pagan Rome's Challenge to Israel

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The Quest for a Common Humanity

Human Dignity and Otherness in the Religious Traditions of the Mediterranean

By: Katell Berthelot

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The Quest for a Common Humanity

Human Dignity and Otherness in the Religious Traditions of the Mediterranean

By: Katell Berthelot

The worldview that all human beings belong to one big family has, in the history of religions, never been taken for granted. Moreover, human rights are a modern notion that should not be projected back onto the sacred texts of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. However, from the Hellenistic period onwards one encounters the idea of human duties towards not only parents, neighbours and fellow citizens but to all human beings. This volume explores the development of this idea from Antiquity to the present time focussing on the "other" as "neighbour, enemy, and infidel", on the interpretation of the Biblical story of Abraham ́s sacrifice and on ancient and modern ethical and legal implications of the concept of human dignity.

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BRILL

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9004211128

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9789004211124

The Gift of the Land and the Fate of the Canaanites in Jewish Thought

By: Katell Berthelot,Joseph E. David,Marc Hirshman

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The Gift of the Land and the Fate of the Canaanites in Jewish Thought

By: Katell Berthelot,Joseph E. David,Marc Hirshman

This volume of essays presents a compelling and comprehensive analysis of the intriguing issue of the gift of the land of Israel and the fate of the Canaanites as presented in diverse biblical sources. Jewish thought has long grappled with the moral and theological implications and challenges of this issue. Innovative interpretive strategies and philosophical reflections were offered, modified, and sometimes rejected over the centuries. Leading contemporary scholars follow these threads of interpretation offered by Jewish thinkersfrom antiquity to modern times.

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Oxford University Press

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0199959811

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Jerusalem

History of a Global City

By: Katell Berthelot,Julien Loiseau,Yann Potin

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History of a Global City

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Jews and Their Roman Rivals

Jews and Their Roman Rivals

Jerusalem

Jerusalem

Jews and Their Roman Rivals

Jews and Their Roman Rivals

The Quest for a Common Humanity

The Quest for a Common Humanity

The Gift of the Land and the Fate of the Canaanites in Jewish Thought

The Gift of the Land and the Fate of the Canaanites in Jewish Thought

Jerusalem

Jerusalem

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