Jews, Christians, and the Roman Empire

Natalie B. Dohrmann is Associate Director of the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies and Adjunct Professor of Religious Studies and Jewish Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the coeditor of Jewish Biblical Interpretation and Cultural Exchange: Comparative Exegesis in Context, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. Annette Yoshiko Reed is M. Mark and Esther K. Watkins Assistant Professor of Humanities in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, author of Fallen Angels and the History of Judaism and Christianity, and coeditor of The Ways That Never Parted: Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity.

List of Abbreviations

Introduction: Rethinking Romanness, Provincializing Christendom

—Annette Yoshiko Reed and Natalie B. Dohrmann

PART I. RABBIS AND OTHER ROMAN SUBELITES

Chapter 1. The Afterlives of the Torah's Ethnic Language: The Sifra and Clement on Lev 18.1-5

—Beth A. Berkowitz

Chapter 2. The Kingdom of Edessa and the Creation of a Christian Aristocracy

—William Adler

Chapter 3. Law and Imperial Idioms: Rabbinic Legalism in a Roman World

—Natalie B. Dohrmann

Chapter 4. The Law of Moses and the Jews: Rabbis, Ethnic Marking, and Romanization

—Hayim Lapin

PART II. CHRISTIANIZATION AND OTHER MODALITIES OF ROMANIZATION

Chapter 5. There Is No Place Like Home: Rabbinic Responses to the Christianization of Palestine

—Joshua Levinson

Chapter 6. Between Gaza and Minorca: The (Un)Making of Minorities in Late Antiquity

—Hagith Sivan

Chapter 7. Christian Historiographers' Reflections on Jewish-Christian Violence in Fifth-Century Alexandria

—Oded Irshai

Chapter 8. Narrating Salvation: Verbal Sacrifices in Late Antique Liturgical Poetry

—Ophir Münz-Manor

Chapter 9. Israelite Kingship, Christian Rome, and the Jewish Imperial Imagination: Midrashic Precursors to the Medieval "Throne of Solomon"

—Ra'anan Boustan

PART III. CONTINUITY AND RUPTURE

Chapter 10. Chains of Tradition from Avot to the Avodah Piyutim

—Michael D. Swartz

Chapter 11. Change in Continuity in Late Legal Papyri from Palaestina Tertia: Nomos Hellênikos and Ethos Rômaikon

—Hannah M. Cotton

Chapter 12. The Representation of the Temple and Jerusalem in Jewish and Christian Houses of Prayer in the Holy Land in Late Antiquity

—Rina Talgam

Chapter 13. Roman Christianity and the Post-Roman West: The Social Correlates of the Contra Iudaeos Tradition

—Paula Fredriksen

Notes

Select Bibliography of Secondary Sources

List of Contributors

Index

Acknowledgments