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Jews, Christians, and the Roman Empire 22020 DohrmannReed_JewsChristiansRomanEmpire_FM.indd 1 22020 8/2/13 9:25 AM JEwish CultuRE and ContExts Published in association with the herbert d. Katz Center for advanced Judaic studies of the university of Pennsylvania david B. Ruderman, series Editor Advisory Board Richard i. Cohen Moshe idel alan Mintz deborah dash Moore ada Rapoport-albert Michael d. swartz a complete list of books in the series is available from the publisher. DohrmannReed_JewsChristiansRomanEmpire_FM.indd 2 22020 8/2/13 9:25 AM 22020 JEw s, ChR ist i a ns, and the RoM a n EMPiR E the Poetics of Power in late antiquity Edited by natalie B. dohrmann and annette Yoshiko Reed university of pennsylvania press philadelphia 22020 DohrmannReed_JewsChristiansRomanEmpire_FM.indd 3 22020 8/2/13 9:25 AM Publication of this volume was assisted by grants from the herbert d. Katz Publications and Martin d. Gruss Endowment Funds of the herbert d. Katz Center for advanced Judaic studies of the university of Pennsylvania. Copyright © 2013 university of Pennsylvania Press all rights reserved. Except for brief quotations used for purposes of review or scholarly citation, none of this book may be reproduced in any form by any means without written permission from the publisher. Published by university of Pennsylvania Press Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-4112 www.upenn.edu/pennpress Printed in the united states of america on acid-free paper 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication data Jews, Christians, and the Roman Empire : the poetics of power in late antiquity / edited by natalie B. dohrmann and annette Yoshiko Reed. — 1st ed. p. cm. — (Jewish culture and contexts) includes bibliographical references and index. isBn 978-0-8122-4533-2 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. Judaism—history—talmudic period, 10–425. 2. Church history—Primitive and early church, ca. 30–600. 3. Rome— Religion. i. dohrmann, natalie B. ii. Reed, annette Yoshiko, 1973–. iii. series: Jewish culture and contexts. BM177.J495 2013 296.09’014—dc23 2013004237 DohrmannReed_JewsChristiansRomanEmpire_FM.indd 4 2222002200 8/2/13 9:25 AM 22020 Contents list of abbreviations ix introduction: Rethinking Romanness, Provincializing Christendom 1 Annette Yoshiko Reed and Natalie B. Dohrmann PaRt i. RaBBis and othER RoMan suB-ElitEs 23 1. The afterlives of the torah’s Ethnic language: The sifra and Clement on leviticus 18.1–5 29 Beth A. Berkowitz 2. The Kingdom of Edessa and the Creation of a Christian aristocracy 43 William Adler 3. law and imperial idioms: Rabbinic legalism in a Roman world 63 Natalie B. Dohrmann 4. The law of Moses and the Jews: Rabbis, Ethnic Marking, and Romanization 79 Hayim Lapin PaRt ii. ChRistianization and othER ModalitiEs oF RoManization 93 5. There is no Place like home: Rabbinic Responses to the Christianization of Palestine 99 Joshua Levinson 2222002200 DohrmannReed_JewsChristiansRomanEmpire_FM.indd 5 22020 8/2/13 9:25 AM vi Contents 6. Between Gaza and Minorca: The (un)Making of Minorities in late antiquity 121 Hagith Sivan 7. Christian historiographers’ Reflections on Jewish-Christian Violence in Fifth-Century alexandria 137 Oded Irshai 8. narrating salvation: Verbal sacrifices in late antique liturgical Poetry 154 Ophir Münz-Manor 9. israelite Kingship, Christian Rome, and the Jewish imperial imagination: Midrashic Precursors to the Medieval “Throne of solomon” 167 Raʿanan Boustan PaRt iii. ContinuitY and RuPtuRE 183 10. Chains of tradition from Avot to the ʿAvodah Piyutim 189 Michael D. Swartz 11. Change and Continuity in late legal Papyri from Palaestina tertia: Nomos Hellênikos and Ethos Rômaikon 209 Hannah M. Cotton 12. The Representation of the temple and Jerusalem in Jewish and Christian houses of Prayer in the holy land in late antiquity 222 Rina Talgam 13. Roman Christianity and the Post-Roman west: The social Correlates of the Contra Iudaeos tradition 249 Paula Fredriksen notes 267 select Bibliography of secondary sources 345 DohrmannReed_JewsChristiansRomanEmpire_FM.indd 6 22020 8/2/13 9:25 AM 22020 Contents vii list of Contributors 379 index 383 acknowledgments 389 22020 DohrmannReed_JewsChristiansRomanEmpire_FM.indd 7 22020 8/2/13 9:25 AM DohrmannReed_JewsChristiansRomanEmpire_FM.indd 8 22020 8/2/13 9:25 AM 22020 abbreviations CJ The Justinian Code, Codex Justinianus, ed. P. Krüger (Berlin, 1877, 192910). CTh The Theodosian Code, ed. t. Mommsen and P. M. Meyer, Theodosiani libri XVI (Berlin, 1905); trans. C. Pharr, The Theodosian Code and Novels: And the Sirmondian Consti- tutions (2nd ed.; union, n.J., 2001 [1952]). Egeria Itinerarium Egeriae, John wilkinson, Egeria’s Travels (3rd ed.; warminster, 1999). Eusebius, DE Eusebius, Demonstratio evangelica, ed. i. heikel, GCs Euse- bius werke 4 (leipzig, 1913). Eusebius, HE Eusebius, Historia ecclesiastica, ed. E. schwartz and t. Mommsen, GCs n.F. 6 (2nd ed.; Berlin, 1999); trans. G. a. williamson (new York, 1965). Eusebius, PE Eusebius, Praeparatio evangelica, ed. K. Mras, GCs 43.1–2 (Berlin, 1954–1956). Eusebius, VC Eusebius, Vita Constantini, ed. F. winkelmann, GCs Euse- bius werke 1.1 (2nd ed.; Berlin, 1991); trans. averil Cam- eron and stuart G. hall, Eusebius: Life of Constantine (oxford, 1999). JLA Journal of Late Antiquity laa late antique archaeology Sirm. Constitutiones Sirmondianae, ed. t. Mommsen and P. M. Meyer, Theodosiani libri XVI cum constitutionibus sirmon- dianus (Berlin, 1905); trans. C. Pharr (union, n.J., 2001 [1952]). socrates, HE socrates of Constantinople, Histoire ecclésiastique, ed. G. C. hansen, 4 vols., sC 477, 493, 505, 506 (Paris, 2004–2007). 22020 DohrmannReed_JewsChristiansRomanEmpire_FM.indd 9 22020 8/2/13 9:25 AM
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