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Author:   Yair Furstenberg
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   94
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.586kg
ISBN:  

9789004321212

ISBN 10:   9004321217
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   30 June 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Contents Introduction: The Shared Dimensions of Jewish and Christian Communal Identities Yair Furstenberg Part I: Imperial Perspectives The Ptolemaic and Roman Definitions of Social Categories and the Evolution of Judean Communal Identity in Egypt Sylvie Honigman The Roman State and Jewish Diaspora Communities in the Antonine Age Martin Goodman Part II: Community and the City Civic Identity and Christ Groups John S. Kloppenborg Organized Charity in the Ancient World: Pagan, Jewish, Christian Pieter W. van der Horst The Fourth Book of Maccabees in a Multi-Cultural City Tessa Rajak Part III: Varieties of Communal Identities Rome and Alexandria: Why was there no Jewish Politeuma in Rome? Daniel R. Schwartz From Text to Community: Methodological Problems of Reconstructing Communities behind Texts Jorg Frey Lycaonian Christianity under Roman Rule and their Jewish-Christian Tradition Cilliers Breytenbach Part IV: Community and Continuity The Jewish Community in Egypt before and after 117 CE in Light of Old and New Papyri Tal Ilan Jewish Communities in the Roman Diaspora: Why Salo Baron Still Matters? Seth Schwartz You are a Chosen Stock ... : The Use of Israel Epithets for the Addressees in First Peter Lutz Doering Author Index General Index

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'...Elf Beitrage ausgewiesener Experten, die wichtige Ansatze fur eine vergleichende Geschichte von judischer und christlicher Gemeindeorganisation in der Antike herausarbeiten. [...] Insgesamt handelt es sich um eine gut organisierte Sammlung von Texten auf durchweg hohem Niveau, die uberdies durch ein Sachregister gut erschlossen werden kann. ' Benedikt Eckhardt, Bremen, Theologische Revue Nr 3 Jahrgang 113, 2017

'...Elf Beitrage ausgewiesener Experten, die wichtige Ansatze fur eine vergleichende Geschichte von judischer und christlicher Gemeindeorganisation in der Antike herausarbeiten. [...] Insgesamt handelt es sich um eine gut organisierte Sammlung von Texten auf durchweg hohem Niveau, die uberdies durch ein Sachregister gut erschlossen werden kann.' - Benedikt Eckhardt, Bremen, in: Theologische Revue Nr 3 Jahrgang 113, 2017 This is a stimulating, well-edited volume and will be useful to a wide range of ancient historians and scholars of Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity. The range of methods, sources and macro-/micro-historical perspectives employed is admirably wide. - Bradley J. Bitner, in: BMCR

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Yair Furstenberg, Ph.D. (2011) is a Senior Lecturer in the department of Jewish History at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. He has published on purity in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity and on rabbinic responses to the Roman Empire.

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