Book contents
- Rome: An Empire of Many Nations
- Reviews
- Rome: An Empire of Many Nations
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Ethnicity and Identity in the Roman Empire
- Part II Culture and Identity in the Roman Empire
- Part III Ethnicity and Identity in the Roman Empire
- 10 Religious Pluralism in the Roman Empire
- 11 Rome’s Attitude to Jews after the Great Rebellion – Beyond Raison d’état?
- 12 Between ethnos and populus
- 13 Local Identities of Synagogue Communities in the Roman Empire
- 14 The Good, the Bad and the Middling
- 15 The Severans and Rabbi Judah ha-Nasi
- Part IV Iudaea/Palaestina
- Bibliography
- General Index
- Index Locorum
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13 - Local Identities of Synagogue Communities in the Roman Empire
from Part III - Ethnicity and Identity in the Roman Empire
Book contents
- Rome: An Empire of Many Nations
- Reviews
- Rome: An Empire of Many Nations
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Ethnicity and Identity in the Roman Empire
- Part II Culture and Identity in the Roman Empire
- Part III Ethnicity and Identity in the Roman Empire
- 10 Religious Pluralism in the Roman Empire
- 11 Rome’s Attitude to Jews after the Great Rebellion – Beyond Raison d’état?
- 12 Between ethnos and populus
- 13 Local Identities of Synagogue Communities in the Roman Empire
- 14 The Good, the Bad and the Middling
- 15 The Severans and Rabbi Judah ha-Nasi
- Part IV Iudaea/Palaestina
- Bibliography
- General Index
- Index Locorum
Summary
This chapter explores the question, using primarily epigraphic evidence, whether individual, localized Jewish communities, without any obvious connection to each other across the ethnically, linguistically and religiously diverse Roman Empire, can be said to have had, or displayed, a “micro-identity” in addition to their non-local ethnic one, or whether this feature, if not entirely absent in some cases, was indeed overshadowed by their shared history and ethnic origins. The answer offered: in some cases, maybe.
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- Rome: An Empire of Many NationsNew Perspectives on Ethnic Diversity and Cultural Identity, pp. 223 - 238Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021