Ebook: Imperialism and Jewish Society: 200 B.C.E. to 640 C.E

This provocative new history of Palestinian Jewish society in antiquity marks the first comprehensive effort to gauge the effects of imperial domination on this people. Probing more than eight centuries of Persian, Greek, and Roman rule, Seth Schwartz rea.;Cover -- Contents -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- Introduction -- PART I: THE JEWS OF PALESTINE TO 70 C.E. -- ONE: Politics and Society -- TWO: Religion and Society before 70 C.E. -- PART II: JEWS IN PALESTINE FROM 135 TO 350 -- THREE: Rabbis and Patriarchs on the Margins -- FOUR: Jews or Pagans? The Jews and the Greco-Roman Cities of Palestine -- FIVE: The Rabbis and Urban Culture -- PART III: SYNAGOGUE AND COMMUNITY FROM 350 TO 640 -- SIX: Christianization -- SEVEN: A Landscape Transformed -- EIGHT: Origins and Diffusion of the Synagogue -- NINE: Judaization -- TEN: The Synagogue and the Ideology of Community -- Conclusion -- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.