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Who was a Jew? / by Martin Goodman.
- Title
- Who was a Jew? / by Martin Goodman.
- Author
- Goodman, Martin, 1953-
- Publication
- Yarnton, Oxford, Eng. : Oxford Centre for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies, c1989.
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| Text | Request in advance | BM170 .G661 1989 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 19 p.; 22 cm.
- Summary
- Discussing how Roman imperial authorities defined legally who was a Jew in the 1st-3rd centuries CE, examines also the special tax imposed on the Jews by Vespasian, levied by the office of the "fiscus Judaicus", following the suppression of the great revolt. Domitian introduced the practice of levying this tax not only from those who were Jews by religion but also those who were born Jews and assimilated into Roman culture. This policy aroused resentment in Rome, because Romans were tolerant of people of all origins as long as they adopted Roman culture. The new emperor, Nerva, eager to correct the transgressions of his predecessor, abolished this practice in 96 CE. It was only from this time that the Romans began to regard as Jewish not those of Jewish origin, but those belonging to the Jewish religion.
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- Note
- "These ideas were originally aired at the Fellows' Seminar at the Oxford Centre for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies in November 1988."--p. [3]
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- LCCN
- gb^92051489^
- OCLC
- 23663782
- SCSB-11099576
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library