Research Catalog

Title

Rome : an empire of many nations : new perspectives on ethnic diversity and cultural identity / edited by Jonathan J. Price, Margalit Finkelberg, Yuval Shahar.

Publication

• Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021.
• ©2021

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Details

Additional Authors

• Price, Jonathan J.
• Finkelberg, Margalit
• Shaḥar, Yuval, 1953-

Description

xiii, 410 pages : color illustrations, color maps; 25 cm

Alternative Title

Rome, an empire of many nations : new perspectives on ethnic diversity and cultural identity

Subject

• National characteristics, Roman
• Romans > Ethnic identity
• Ethnicity > Rome
• Jews > Rome > History
• Religious pluralism > Rome
• Group identity > Rome
• Ethnicity
• Group identity
• Jews
• Religious pluralism
• Rome (Empire)

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

• Ethnicity and identity in the Roman Empire -- From Rome to Constantinople / Benjamin Isaac -- The Imperial Senate / Werner Eck -- Ethnic types and stereotypes in ancient Latin idioms / Daniela Dueck -- Keti, son of Masawalat : ethnicity and empire / Brent D. Shaw -- Ethnicity and identity in the Roman Empire -- Roman reception of the Trojan War / Margalit Finkelberg -- Claiming Roman origins : Greek cities and the Roman colonial pattern / Cédric Brélaz -- Roman theologies in the cities of Italy and the provinces / John Scheid -- The involvement of provincial cities in the administration of school teaching / Ido Israelowich -- Many nations, one night? Historical aspects of the night in the Roman Empire / Angelos Chaniotis
• Ethnicity and identity in the Roman Empire : the case of the Jews -- Religious pluralism in the Roman Empire : did Judaism test the limits of Roman tolerance? / Erich S. Gruen -- Rome's attitude to Jews and Judea after the Great Rebellion -- beyond raison d'état? / Alexander Yakobson -- Between ethnos and populus : the boundaries of being a Jew / Youval Rotman -- Local identities of synagogue communities in the Roman Empire / Jonathan J. Price -- The good the bad and the middling : Roman emperors in Talmudic literature / Yuval Shahar -- The Severans and Rabbi Judah ha-Nasi / Aharon Oppenheimer -- Iudaea/Palaestina -- The Roman Legionary Base in Legio-Kefar 'Othnay -- the evidence from the small finds / Yotam Tepper -- The camp of the Legion X Fretensis and the emergence of Aelia Capitolina / Shlomit Weksler-Bdolah.

Call Number

JFF 21-920

ISBN

• 9781108479455
• 1108479456

LCCN

2020057804

OCLC

1228225841

Title

Rome : an empire of many nations : new perspectives on ethnic diversity and cultural identity / edited by Jonathan J. Price, Margalit Finkelberg, Yuval Shahar.

Publisher

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Copyright Date

©2021

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Added Author

Price, Jonathan J., editor.

Finkelberg, Margalit, editor.

Shaḥar, Yuval, 1953- editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Rome Cambridge, United Kingdom : New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021. 9781108785563 (DLC) 2020057805

Research Call Number

JFF 21-920