Book contents
- The Early Modern Invention of Late Antique Rome
- The Early Modern Invention of Late Antique Rome
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations and Maps
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1. The Reinventio of the Hidden City
- 2. Rewiring the Sacred Circuit (Roma Sancta Renovata)
- 3. Remains to Be Seen (or, On the Holy Corpse)
- 4. Peter’s Bones
- 5. De Rossi’s Deception: Crafting the Crypt of the Popes
- 6. Raising Late Antique Jews from the Valley of Dry Bones
- 7. Disposing of Depositio (Ad Sanctos)
- 8. Inventing Christian Rome
- Bibliography
- Index
6. - Raising Late Antique Jews from the Valley of Dry Bones
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 August 2020
Book contents
- The Early Modern Invention of Late Antique Rome
- The Early Modern Invention of Late Antique Rome
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Illustrations and Maps
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1. The Reinventio of the Hidden City
- 2. Rewiring the Sacred Circuit (Roma Sancta Renovata)
- 3. Remains to Be Seen (or, On the Holy Corpse)
- 4. Peter’s Bones
- 5. De Rossi’s Deception: Crafting the Crypt of the Popes
- 6. Raising Late Antique Jews from the Valley of Dry Bones
- 7. Disposing of Depositio (Ad Sanctos)
- 8. Inventing Christian Rome
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Rome’s Jewish catacombs play a major role in reconstructing the nature and identity of the late antique city’s Jewish population. And yet, a closer and critical examination of these sites reveals that there is much to question about the wisdom and accuracy of reconstructing late antique Roman Judaism based on the catacombs. In Chapter 6, I question whether such a thing as a “Jewish catacomb” ever truly existed in isolation in late antique Rome, and what such a thing might reveal about Jewish-Christian relations in the fourth and fifth centuries.
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- The Early Modern Invention of Late Antique Rome , pp. 251 - 296Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020
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