Review Symposium: Interdisciplinary Readings of Ari Z. Bryen's Violence in Roman Egypt: A Study in Legal Interpretation—Introduction

2015 ◽  
Vol 40 (03) ◽  
pp. 783
Author(s):  
Jill D. Weinberg
Keyword(s):  
Review Symposium ◽  
Legal Interpretation ◽  
Roman Egypt

Review Symposium: Interdisciplinary Readings of Ari Bryen's Violence in Roman Egypt—Author's Reflections

2015 ◽  
Vol 40 (03) ◽  
pp. 807-810
Author(s):  
Ari Z. Bryen
Keyword(s):  
Review Symposium ◽  
Law And Society ◽  
Roman Egypt ◽  
Respective Discipline

In this brief comment, I respond to symposium reviewers of my book Violence in Roman Egypt (2013). I consider the insights each provides from their respective discipline, and identify connections across those disciplines as well. More broadly, I comment on the theoretical purchase and unique challenges of law and society scholarship.

Review Symposium: Interdisciplinary Readings of Ari Z. Bryen's Violence in Roman Egypt: Where Law, Violence, and Culture Collide: A Sociolegal Reading of Violence in Everyday Life

2015 ◽  
Vol 40 (03) ◽  
pp. 802-806
Author(s):  
Jill D. Weinberg
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social World ◽  
Review Symposium ◽  
Second Century ◽  
Law And Society ◽  
Cultural Resource ◽  
The Social ◽  
Roman Egypt

This comment considers Ari Bryen's Violence in Roman Egypt (2013) from sociological and sociolegal perspectives. Although Bryen is a historian, and his site of inquiry is second‐century Roman Egypt, he turns to contemporary sociologists and law and society scholars to highlight the interplay between law and the social world in the construction of violence. In doing so, he finds a new way to analyze the role of law as a cultural resource for nonelites to make sense of their social world but also to change it (albeit with limits) through law.

Historicizing the Lived Experience of Violence: Bryen's Violence in Roman Egypt

2015 ◽  
Vol 40 (03) ◽  
pp. 784-792
Author(s):  
Cam Grey
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Social History ◽  
Legal Interpretation ◽  
Small Communities ◽  
Detailed Treatment ◽  
The Social ◽  
Classical Studies ◽  
Roman Egypt ◽  
History Of

Ari Byren's Violence in Roman Egypt: A Study in Legal Interpretation (2013) effectively inserts itself into two complementary fields of inquiry and discussion within the field of classical studies. First, it offers a detailed treatment of the social history of small communities in Roman Egypt, providing an important contribution to the study of violence in antiquity—a topic that has gained interest in recent years. Second, it is an extended meditation on the place of violence within a society and law's role in defining and eliminating it.

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