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Jews and Their Roman Rivals : Pagan Rome's Challenge to Israel /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Berthelot, Katell
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2021]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Maps
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Note on Translations
  • Introduction
  • 1. Recontextualizing Israel's Encounter with the Roman Empire in the Longue Duree
  • 2. A Survey of Scholarship on "Rome and Jerusalem"
  • 3. Responses to Empire: Theory, Terminology, and Method
  • Empire, Imperialism, and Imperial Ideology
  • Analyzing Responses to Empire: Coping with Diversity
  • Jewish Responses to the Roman Empire
  • Chapter 1 Coping with Empires before Rome: From Assyria to the Hellenistic Kingdoms
  • 1. The Neo-Assyrian Empire
  • 1.1 The Nature of Neo-Assyrian Imperialism
  • 1.2 The Legacy of Neo-Assyrian Imperialism in the Bible
  • The Notion of a Universal God
  • God's Kingdom and Divine Kingship
  • The Covenant between God and Israel
  • Specific Laws of the Covenant
  • Human Kingship
  • 2. The Neo-Babylonian Empire
  • 2.1 The Nature of Neo-Babylonian Imperialism
  • 2.2 The Legacy of Neo-Babylonian Imperialism in the Bible
  • The Emergence of Monotheism: Foreign Gods as Idols
  • The Election and Salvific Role of the People of Israel
  • Human Kingship
  • 3. The Persian Empire
  • 3.1 The Nature of Achaemenid Imperialism
  • Local Cults and Imperial Propaganda
  • Persian Imperial Ideology: Universalism, Dualism, and Soterio logical Mission
  • 3.2 Achaemenid Imperialism in the Bible and in Second Temple-Period Jewish Sources
  • Further Monotheistic Developments: The Rejection of Dualism
  • The Creator God
  • Human Kingship
  • The Rise of the Torah
  • The Development of an Apocalyptic Worldview and Literature
  • Eschatology and Ethics
  • 4. The Hellenistic Kingdoms
  • 4.1 Seleucid Rule and Royal Ideology
  • 4.2 The Legacy of Seleucid Imperialism in Ancient Jewish Sources
  • Human Kingship
  • Territory: Defining Israel's Relationship to the Promised Land in Legal-Historical Terms
  • Time, History, and Power: Foretelling the End of Empire
  • Empires, Theology, and Angelology
  • Chapter 2 The Unique Challenge of the Roman Empire: A Rivalry between Two Peoples
  • 1. The Imperialism of a People
  • 1.1 A Jewish Testimony from the Second Century BCE
  • 1.2 The Imperium of the Populus Romanus
  • 1.3 Roma: City, Personification, and Goddess
  • 2. The "Election" of the Romans
  • 2.1 A Divine Scheme
  • 2.2 Roman Virtues
  • 2.3 Roman Pietas
  • 3. The "Vocation" of the Romans
  • 3.1 A Universal and Eternal Rule?
  • Universal Rule
  • Eternal Rule
  • 3.2 A "Messianic" Vocation to Bring Peace, Prosperity, and LegalOrder to the World
  • 4. The Roman Victories Over the Jews: Obliteration and Substitution
  • 4.1 A "Game of Temples": From Jerusalem to Rome and Vice-Versa
  • 4.2 Aelia Capitolina: A Miniature Rome
  • 5. Rome as Israel's Twin Brother and Rival
  • 5.1 Rome, an Empire among Others?
  • 5.2 Rome as Esau/Edom
  • Chapter 3 The Challenge of Roman Power
  • 1. Roman Military Power and Roman Manliness
  • 1.1 The Childrenof Mars