: Re-thinking Judaism’s Encounter with the Roman Empire
Welcome to the website for the ERC project "Re-thinking
Judaism’s Encounter with the Roman Empire: Rome’s Political and
Religious Challenge to Israel and its Impact on Judaism"!
On this website you will find useful resources for
studying Roman imperial ideology, or Roman imperial discourses,
artefacts and performances, displayed in literary records, epigraphy,
numismatics, as well as through monuments, statues and other material
artefacts. There is a particular focus on sources connected to the three
sub-themes of the project, “Roman Power,” “Roman Law” and “Roman
Citizenship”.
You will also find Jewish, Greek, Egyptian and
Christian sources documenting the responses of some of the provincials
of the Roman empire to the challenge of Roman domination. By
"responses," however, we do not intend only the provincial sources that
explicitly mention Rome and address issues such as Roman law courts or
grants of Roman citizenship. We also take into account the way the Roman
imperial context led provincials to formulate their own conceptions of
power, law, and citizenship or membership with a given group.
The website Judaism and Rome aims to:
- give access to some important sources, providing as much information as possible: images, original text, translation…
- provide the reader with an original and detailed analysis of each
source, a service that is very rarely offered on the internet, and which
makes this website comparable to a rich sourcebook
- promote interdisciplinary discussion between scholars working on
Roman history, Jewish Studies, Epigraphy, Numismatics, Classics,
Patristics, History of Christianity, etc.
There are multiple ways to perform a search and to find sources that are relevant to your specific interests. Please look at “How to search".
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