Jews, Christians, and the Roman Empire

Natalie B. Dohrmann is Associate Director of the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies and Adjunct Professor of Religious Studies and Jewish Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the coeditor of Jewish Biblical Interpretation and Cultural Exchange: Comparative Exegesis in Context, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press. Annette Yoshiko Reed is M. Mark and Esther K. Watkins Assistant Professor of Humanities in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, author of Fallen Angels and the History of Judaism and Christianity, and coeditor of The Ways That Never Parted: Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity.

• List of AbbreviationsIntroduction: Rethinking Romanness, Provincializing Christendom-Annette Yoshiko Reed and Natalie B. DohrmannPART I. RABBIS AND OTHER ROMAN SUBELITESChapter 1. The Afterlives of the Torah's Ethnic Language: The Sifra and Clement on Lev 18.1-5-Beth A. BerkowitzChapter 2. The Kingdom of Edessa and the Creation of a Christian Aristocracy-William AdlerChapter 3. Law and Imperial Idioms: Rabbinic Legalism in a Roman World-Natalie B. DohrmannChapter 4. The Law of Moses and the Jews: Rabbis, Ethnic Marking, and Romanization-Hayim LapinPART II. CHRISTIANIZATION AND OTHER MODALITIES OF ROMANIZATIONChapter 5. There Is No Place Like Home: Rabbinic Responses to the Christianization of Palestine-Joshua LevinsonChapter 6. Between Gaza and Minorca: The (Un)Making of Minorities in Late Antiquity-Hagith SivanChapter 7. Christian Historiographers' Reflections on Jewish-Christian Violence in Fifth-Century Alexandria-Oded IrshaiChapter 8. Narrating Salvation: Verbal Sacrifices in Late Antique Liturgical Poetry-Ophir MÜnz-ManorChapter 9. Israelite Kingship, Christian Rome, and the Jewish Imperial Imagination: Midrashic Precursors to the Medieval "Throne of Solomon"-Ra'anan BoustanPART III. CONTINUITY AND RUPTUREChapter 10. Chains of Tradition from Avot to the Avodah Piyutim-Michael D. SwartzChapter 11. Change in Continuity in Late Legal Papyri from Palaestina Tertia: Nomos HellÊnikos and Ethos RÔmaikon-Hannah M. CottonChapter 12. The Representation of the Temple and Jerusalem in Jewish and Christian Houses of Prayer in the Holy Land in Late Antiquity-Rina TalgamChapter 13. Roman Christianity and the Post-Roman West: The Social Correlates of the Contra Iudaeos Tradition-Paula FredriksenNotesSelect Bibliography of Secondary SourcesList of ContributorsIndexAcknowledgments

"Beginning with the editors' fundamental historiographical and programmatic essay, Jews, Christians, and the Roman Empire is the most important collection of studies on Jews in late antiquity I have ever seen. In fact, it is essential reading for all students of late antiquity. Especially admirable is the book's implicit argument that late antiquity was constituted not by a single seismic shift but by the slow accretion of small changes over time." (Seth Schwartz, Columbia University) "This volume opens up important new intellectual avenues for students of ancient religion and empire and will undoubtedly have a tremendous impact on multiple arenas of scholarly research. There is, simply, no work that tackles the intellectual question 'How do we integrate Judaism into the Roman Empire, and vice versa?' with such depth and breadth." (Andrew S. Jacobs, Scripps College)