This text focuses on the Jewish community in third and fourth-century Rome, and in particular on how this community related to the larger non-Jewish world that surrounded it. The book's point of departure is a refutation of the disputable thesis that Roman Jews lived in complete isolation. The book examines Jewish archaeological remains and Jewish funerary inscriptions from Rome from various angles, and compares them with Pagan and early Christian material and epigraphical remains. In the last part, the author concentrates on an enigmatic legal treatise entitled the "Collatio", identifying its author and exploring the implications of this identification. This study proposes a new way in which the relationship between Jews and non-Jews in late antiquity can be studied.
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" Rutgers high degree of methodological awareness is very much in order and may be regarded as one of the strengths of his book," Grant Parker(Scholia Reviews 6 (1997)) -- (Grant Parker - Scholia Reviews 6 1997)
"A richly complex and fascinating book" Nicholas H.M. de Lange -- Bulletin of Judaeo-Greek Studies 1995
"Truly a tour de force," Louis H. Feldman(The Jewish Quarterly Review 86 (1996)) -- (Louis H. Feldman - The Jewish Quarterly Review
Rutgers has brought to bear formidable skills as an archaeologist and historian. He seems equally at home with inscriptions, architecture, art, patristics, and classical literature," Martin Goodman(The Classical Review 47 (1997)) -- (Martin Goodman)
"A richly complex and fascinating book" Nicholas H.M. de Lange -- Bulletin of Judaeo-Greek Studies 1995
"Truly a tour de force," Louis H. Feldman(The Jewish Quarterly Review 86 (1996)) -- (Louis H. Feldman - The Jewish Quarterly Review
Rutgers has brought to bear formidable skills as an archaeologist and historian. He seems equally at home with inscriptions, architecture, art, patristics, and classical literature," Martin Goodman(The Classical Review 47 (1997)) -- (Martin Goodman)
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I generously give this book 3 stars because it is meticulously researched. But, this is not a book that that most people would read cover to cover. It is chock full of footnotes and does not really have what I would call a solid theme or story. Now, I don't need to read dumbed down versions of anything, but this is too replete with detail to be anything other than a reference guide on a very arcane subject. I think it must have been the author's PHD thesis.
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