Jews and Their Roman Rivals: Pagan Rome's Challenge to Israel Berthelot Katell
Jews and Their Roman Rivals: Pagan Rome's Challenge to Israel Berthelot Katell How encounters with the Roman Empire compelled the Jews of antiquity to rethink their conceptions of Israel and the…
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Jews and Their Roman Rivals: Pagan Rome's Challenge to Israel Berthelot Katell
How encounters with the Roman Empire compelled the Jews of antiquity to rethink their conceptions of Israel and the TorahThroughout their history, Jews have lived under a succession of imperial powers, from Assyria and Babylonia to Persia and the Hellenistic kingdoms. Both considered their laws to be the most perfect ever written, and both believed they were a most pious people who had been entrusted with a divine mission to bring order and peace to the world. 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.Katell Berthelot traces how, long before the empire became Christian, Jews came to perceive Israel and Rome as rivals competing for supremacy.
Berthelot argues that the rabbinic