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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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
The chapter argues against an influential thesis according to which Jews and Judaea were treated with extraordinary harshness in the wake of the Great Rebellion, due to the new Flavian dynasty’s political needs. It is argued that Vespasian enjoyed considerable legitimacy at the beginning of his reign; he did not need to base his legitimacy on a continuous ‘war against the Jews’; nothing he did needs to be explained by attributing this motivation to him. The harshness of the treatment endured by the defeated Jews was, fundamentally, “normal’ imperial harshness.
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- Rome: An Empire of Many NationsNew Perspectives on Ethnic Diversity and Cultural Identity, pp. 186 - 202Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021