The Jews in the Roman Empire

Alfredo Mordechai Rabello, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Contents: Civil justice in Palestine from 63 BCE to 70 CE; Herod’s domestic court? The judgment of death for Herod’s sons; The ’Lex de Templo Hierosolymitano’, prohibiting Gentiles from entering Jerusalem’s Sanctuary; The situation of the Jews in Roman Spain; The ban on circumcision as a cause of Bar Kokhbah’s rebellion; On the relations between Diocletian and the Jews; La première loi de Théodose II, C.Th.XVI, 8, 18, et la fête de Pourim; L’observance des fêtes juives dans l’Empire romain; Divorce of Jews in the Roman Empire; Il problema dei matrimoni fra Ebrei e Cristiani nella legislazione imperiale e in quella della Chiesa (IV-VI secolo); The Samaritans in Justinian’s Corpus Iuris Civilis; Jewish and Roman jurisdiction; Civil Jewish jurisdiction in the days of Emperor Justinian (527-565): Codex Justinianus 1.9.8; The attitude of Rome towards conversions to Judaism (atheism, circumcision, proselytism); A tribute to Jean Juster; Index.