Jews and Their Roman Rivals - Pagan Rome's Challenge to Israel torrent

Jews and Their Roman Rivals: Pagan Rome's Challenge to Israel
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English | Oct 26, 2021 | ISBN: 0691199299 | 552 pages | PDF | 15,5 MB

How encounters with the Roman Empire compelled the Jews of antiquity to rethink their conceptions of Israel and the Torah

Throughout their history, Jews have lived under a succession of imperial powers, from Assyria and Babylonia to Persia and the Hellenistic kingdoms. Jews and Their Roman Rivals shows how the Roman Empire posed a unique challenge to Jewish thinkers such as Philo, Josephus, and the Palestinian rabbis, who both resisted and internalized Roman standards and imperial ideology.