Book contents
- The Cambridge World History of Genocide
- The Cambridge World History of Genocide
- The Cambridge World History of Genocide
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Contributors to Volume I
- General Editor’s Acknowledgements
- General Editor’s Introduction to the Series
- Introduction to Volume I
- Part I Themes of Genocide through History
- Part II The Ancient World
- 6 Genocide in Ancient Israelite and Early Jewish Sources
- 7 Genocide in Ancient Mesopotamia during the Bronze and Iron Ages
- 8 Urbicide in the Ancient Greek World, 480–330 bce
- 9 Violence, Emotions and Justice in the Hellenistic Period
- 10 A Tale of Three Cities
- 11 Caesar’s Gallic Genocide
- 12 Genocidal Perspectives in the Roman Empire’s Approach towards the Jews
- 13 Religious Violence in the Later Roman Empire
- 14 Genocide, Extermination and Mass Killing in Chinese History
- Part III The Medieval World and Early Imperial Expansions
- Index
12 - Genocidal Perspectives in the Roman Empire’s Approach towards the Jews
from Part II - The Ancient World
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 June 2023
Book contents
- The Cambridge World History of Genocide
- The Cambridge World History of Genocide
- The Cambridge World History of Genocide
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Contributors to Volume I
- General Editor’s Acknowledgements
- General Editor’s Introduction to the Series
- Introduction to Volume I
- Part I Themes of Genocide through History
- Part II The Ancient World
- 6 Genocide in Ancient Israelite and Early Jewish Sources
- 7 Genocide in Ancient Mesopotamia during the Bronze and Iron Ages
- 8 Urbicide in the Ancient Greek World, 480–330 bce
- 9 Violence, Emotions and Justice in the Hellenistic Period
- 10 A Tale of Three Cities
- 11 Caesar’s Gallic Genocide
- 12 Genocidal Perspectives in the Roman Empire’s Approach towards the Jews
- 13 Religious Violence in the Later Roman Empire
- 14 Genocide, Extermination and Mass Killing in Chinese History
- Part III The Medieval World and Early Imperial Expansions
- Index
Summary
This chapter focuses on the series of conflicts between the Roman government and the Jewish population of the Roman empire during the first and second centuries CE. Modern theories on this relationship are as elaborate and convoluted as the corpus of primary sources available for it. Both will be analyzed here through the scope of genocide, in an attempt to determine whether there ever existed a Roman intent to destroy the Jewish group or parts of it, and the extent to which actual destruction ultimately occurred.
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- The Cambridge World History of Genocide , pp. 330 - 352Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023