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A Jew in the Roman Bathhouse : Cultural Interaction in the Ancient Mediterranean /

"This monograph argues that Roman bathhouses were laboratories in which Jews interacted with Graeco-Roman culture. It tells the story of the Jews who frequented them, documenting their pleasures, anxieties, and concerns, and reconstructing their thoughts, feelings, and beliefs about the activit...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Eliav, Yaron Z. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2023]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a The miracle of water : the emergence of the baths as a cultural institution -- The textual bath: physical realities and perceptions at a provincial Roman (-Jewish) public bathhouse -- Earliest encounters : archaeology, scholarly debate, and the shifting grounds of interpretation -- A sinful place? Jewish (Rabbinic) laws of and feelings about the Roman bath -- Tsni'ut (Rabbinic modes of modesty) in the halls of promiscuity : mixed bathing and nudity in the public bathhouse -- The naked Rabbi and the beautiful goddess : engaging sculpture in the public bathhouse -- A social laboratory : status and hierarchy in the bathhouse -- A scary place : the perils of the bath and Jewish magic remedies. 
520 |a "This monograph argues that Roman bathhouses were laboratories in which Jews interacted with Graeco-Roman culture. It tells the story of the Jews who frequented them, documenting their pleasures, anxieties, and concerns, and reconstructing their thoughts, feelings, and beliefs about the activities that took place there. The chapters of the book are arranged as an invitation to follow the ancient Jew as he or she engages the bath, and highlights details small and large about what Jews knew about the place, but even more so, about what they felt about it. Were they intimidated by the nudity that prevailed there or by the sculptures that adorned the place? How did Jewish law configure the bath? What were the Jewish social norms that developed there? Exploring these questions enhances and complicates our understanding of ancient Judaism and its encounter with the dominant way of life around it. Jewish engagement with and perceptions of the bathhouse are documented in numerous sources: inscriptions on stone, documents written on papyri, and most of all, in hundreds of references in the Jewish literature of the time. These stories, laws, and regulations, written in Greek, Aramaic, and Hebrew, reflect every aspect of Jewish life in the ancient Mediterranean. In this monograph, Yaron Eliav brings all of these sources together for the first time"--  |c Provided by publisher. 
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