How Much Jewish Polygyny in Roman Palestine?

1997 ◽  
Vol 63 ◽  
pp. 181 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adiel Schremer
Keyword(s):  
Roman Palestine

What Is Hidden in the Small Box? Narratives of Late Antique Roman Palestine in Dialogue

AJS Review ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 76-94
Author(s):  
Reuven Kiperwasser
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Late Antique ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
Narrative Tradition ◽  
Judaic Studies ◽  
Roman Palestine ◽  
The Church ◽  
Shared Narrative

This study is a comparative reading of two distinct narrative traditions with remarkably similar features of plot and content. The first tradition is from the Palestinian midrash Kohelet Rabbah, datable to the fifth to sixth centuries. The second is from John Moschos's Spiritual Meadow (Pratum spirituale), which is very close to Kohelet Rabbah in time and place. Although quite similar, the two narratives differ in certain respects. Pioneers of modern Judaic studies such as Samuel Krauss and Louis Ginzberg had been interested in the question of the relationships between early Christian authors and the rabbis; however, the relationships between John Moschos and Palestinian rabbinic writings have never been systematically treated (aside from one enlightening study by Hillel Newman). Here, in this case study, I ask comparative questions: Did Kohelet Rabbah borrow the tradition from Christian lore; or was the church author impressed by the teachings of Kohelet Rabbah? Alternatively, perhaps, might both have learned the shared story from a common continuum of local narrative tradition? Beyond these questions about literary dependence, I seek to understand the shared narrative in its cultural context.

scholarly journals A Roman altar on Mount Gerizim: Rediscovering a civic icon on tetradrachms of Neapolis (Samaria)

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Andreas J. M. Kropp
Keyword(s):  
Religious Life ◽  
First Time ◽  
Roman Palestine ◽  
Panoramic Views

Abstract This article examines the iconography of a type of Caracalla tetradrachm that has been newly attributed to Neapolis in Roman Palestine and whose reverse depicts a monumental altar decorated with statues of Tyche, Ephesian Artemis, and Kore Persephone. The study contextualizes these deities in the religious life of Neapolis and identifies the monument as an altar often depicted as a miniscule element in panoramic views of Mount Gerizim on the bronze coins of Neapolis. The tetradrachms provide, for the first time, a close-up view of this long-lost civic monument.

Food in Roman Palestine : ancient sources and modern research

2007 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 41-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Weingarten
Keyword(s):  
Roman Palestine

Jewish Women in Greco-Roman Palestine: An Inquiry into Image and Status

1998 ◽  
Vol 118 (4) ◽  
pp. 570
Author(s):  
Ross S. Kraemer ◽  
Tal Ilan ◽  
Jonathan Price
Keyword(s):  
Jewish Women ◽  
Greco Roman ◽  
Roman Palestine

Rabbinic Perceptions of Christianity and the History of Roman Palestine

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
WILLIAM HORBURY
Keyword(s):  
Rabbinic Literature ◽  
Western World ◽  
History Of Christianity ◽  
History Of ◽  
Roman Palestine

This chapter evaluates the use of rabbinic literature in the study of the history of Christianity in Roman Palestine. It explains that this issue goes back to medieval Jewish-Christian controversy and intertwines with the whole history of the reception of the Talmud in Europe and the western world. It suggests that the view that Christians are most often envisaged in the rabbinic references to minim is consistent with the likelihood that Christianity is envisaged in a number of rabbinic and targumic passages which do not mention minim.

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