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Rome: An Empire of Many Nations
New Perspectives on Ethnic Diversity and Cultural Identity

2nd Edition

Benjamin Isaac, Werner Eck, Daniela Dueck, Brent D. Shaw, Margalit Finkelberg, Cédric Brélaz, John Scheid, Ido Israelowich, Angelos Chaniotis, Erich S. Gruen, Alexander Yakobson, Youval Rotman, Jonathan J. Price, Yuval Shahar, Aharon Oppenheimer, Yotam Tepper, Shlomit Weksler-Bdolah
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  • Date Published: April 2022
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  • format: Paperback
  • isbn: 9781009256223

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  • The center of gravity in Roman studies has shifted far from the upper echelons of government and administration in Rome or the Emperor's court to the provinces and the individual. The multi-disciplinary studies presented in this volume reflect the turn in Roman history to the identities of ethnic groups and even single individuals who lived in Rome's vast multinational empire. The purpose is less to discover another element in the Roman Empire's 'success' in governance than to illuminate the variety of individual experience in its own terms. The chapters here, reflecting a wide spectrum of professional expertise, range across the many cultures, languages, religions and literatures of the Roman Empire, with a special focus on the Jews as a test-case for the larger issues. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

    • Provides a vigorous new perspective of Empire and imperialism, from the point of view of ethnicity and the subjects of the Empire
    • Demonstrates the benefits of adopting a multi-disciplinary approach to the issues
    • Includes numerous new insights from a wide range of distinguished contributors
    • This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core
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    'I recommend this scholarly work for anyone interested in Roman studies and specifically curious about the diversity within the Roman Empire. The essays include a breadth of disciplines and perspectives and a wide range of topics that invites further investigation and study. The information was accessible, and even nonspecialists in certain fields or students simply interested in learning more will find something to appreciate and enjoy.' Rubin and Yi James and McClain, The Review of Biblical Literature

    '… advances interdisciplinary, cross-cultural, and inclusive approaches to the ancient Mediterranean world, notwithstanding the abundance of perspectives and methodologies that remain to be explored.' Nandini Pandey, H-Soz-Kult

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    • Edition: 2nd Edition
    • Date Published: April 2022
    • format: Paperback
    • isbn: 9781009256223
    • length: 426 pages
    • dimensions: 243 x 170 x 21 mm
    • weight: 0.75kg
    • availability: Available
  • Table of Contents

    List of figures
    List of contributors
    Acknowledgements
    Introduction: Part I. Ethnicity and Identity in the Roman Empire:
    1. From Rome to Constantinople Benjamin Isaac
    2. The imperial senate: center of a multinational empire Werner Eck
    3. Ethnic types and stereotypes in Ancient Latin idioms Daniela Dueck
    4. Keti, son of Masawalat: ethnicity and empire Brent D. Shaw
    Part II. Ethnicity and Identity in the Roman Empire:
    5. Roman reception of the Trojan war Margalit Finkelberg
    6. Claiming Roman origins: Greek cities and the Roman colonial pattern Cédric Brélaz
    7. Roman theologies in the cities of Italy and the provinces John Scheid
    8. The involvement of provincial cities in the administration of school teaching Ido Israelowich
    9. Many nations, one night? Historical aspects of the night in the Roman Empire Angelos Chaniotis
    Part III. Ethnicity and Identity in the Roman Empire: the Case of the Jews:
    10. Religious pluralism in the Roman Empire: did Judaism test the limits of Roman tolerance? Erich S. Gruen
    11. Rome's attitude to Jews and Judaea after the great rebellion – beyond raison d'état? Alexander Yakobson
    12. Between ethnos and populus: the boundaries of being a Jew Youval Rotman
    13. Local identities of synagogue communities in the Roman Empire Jonathan J. Price
    14. The good the bad and the middling: Roman emperors in Talmudic literature Yuval Shahar
    15. The severans and rabbi Judah ha-Nasi Aharon Oppenheimer
    Part IV. Iudaea/Palaestina:
    16. The Roman legionary base in Legio-Kefar 'Othnay' – the evidence from the small finds Yotam Tepper
    17. The camp of the legion X Fretensis and the emergence of Aelia capitolina Shlomit Weksler-Bdolah
    Bibliography
    Indexes.

  • Editors

    Jonathan J. Price, Tel-Aviv University
    Jonathan J. Price is the Fred and Helen Lessing Professor of Ancient History at Tel Aviv University, and the author of many studies on Greek and Roman historiography and Jewish history and epigraphy of the Roman period. His publications include Jerusalem Under Siege: The Collapse of the Jewish State, 66-70 C.E. (1992), Thucydides and Internal War (Cambridge, 2001), and editions of about 3000 Jewish inscriptions in Corpus Inscriptionum Iudaeae/Palaestinae, Volumes I-V (2010-2020).

    Margalit Finkelberg, Tel-Aviv University
    Margalit Finkelberg is Professor of Classics (emeritus) at Tel Aviv University and a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities. She has authored The Birth of Literary Fiction in Ancient Greece (1998), Greeks and Pre-Greeks: Aegean Prehistory and Greek Heroic Tradition (Cambridge, 2005), Homer (2014; Hebrew), The Gatekeeper: Narrative Voice in Plato's Dialogues (2019), Homer and Early Greek Epic: Collected Essays (2020), and numerous scholarly articles. She is the editor of The Homer Encyclopedia (3 vols.; 2011).

    Yuval Shahar, Tel-Aviv University
    Yuval Shahar is Senior Lecturer in Jewish History at Tel Aviv University. His published studies on the history, historiography and historical geography of Palestine in the Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine periods, include Josephus Geographicus: The Classical Context of Geography in Josephus (2004).

    Contributors

    Benjamin Isaac, Werner Eck, Daniela Dueck, Brent D. Shaw, Margalit Finkelberg, Cédric Brélaz, John Scheid, Ido Israelowich, Angelos Chaniotis, Erich S. Gruen, Alexander Yakobson, Youval Rotman, Jonathan J. Price, Yuval Shahar, Aharon Oppenheimer, Yotam Tepper, Shlomit Weksler-Bdolah

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