‎Brouria Bitton-Ashkelony, Martin Goodman (eds)‎
‎Essays on Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity in Honour of Oded Irshai‎

‎, Brepols, 2023 Hardback, 308 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:9 b/w, Language: English. ISBN 9782503602455.‎

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‎Summary Leading scholars in the study of Late Antiquity discuss the religious landscape of the eastern Roman Empire, with expert discussion of the theological, political, and social issues which confronted Jews and Christians in late Roman Palestine and surrounding regions. Individual chapters analyse in depth the rabbinic, patristic, and archaeological evidence to produce a sophisticated account of religious lives in provincial societies in which rabbinic Judaism took root within a Roman world increasingly dominated from the early fourth century CE by competing Christian power structures, particularly within Palestine. Detailed studies investigate, among other topics, rabbinic speculation about the origins and nature of the Roman state; the implications of the sharing of urban space by different religious traditions and the sharing of religious iconography; competition both within Judaism and Christianity and between Jews and Christians in light of the political pressures exerted by the Christian Roman state; and both similarities and differences in speculation by Jews and Christians about the nature of the expected end of days. TABLE OF CONTENTS PAULA FREDRIKSEN, with OSNAT RANCE ? Ode to Oded MARTIN GOODMAN ? Introduction Religion and the Visual YONATAN MOSS ? The Emperor's New Clothes: the 'Jewish Helios' Enigma in its Christian Imperial Context NOA YUVAL-HACHAM ? Between Heaven and Earth: The Hand of God in Ancient Jewish Visuality ZEEV WEISS ? Shaping Religious Space: Pagans, Jews and Christians in Ancient Sepphoris Christian Perspectives YONATAN LIVNEH ? Cyril's New Jerusalem and His Omission of Local Church History JACOB ASHKENAZI ? Eudocia, Pulcheria, and Juvenal: Competition in the Field of Religion and the Built Environment of Jerusalem in the Fifth Century CE OSNAT RANCE ? 'Although Their Names Escaped Me': Local Patriotism and Saints Commemoration in Late Antique Syria ARYEH KOFSKY and SERGE RUZER ? Rethinking the Eschatological Ingathering of Israel in Early Christianity ORA LIMOR ? Divina Vestigia: Tracking the Early History of Jesus' Footprints at the Mount of Olives DANIEL R. SCHWARTZ ? Reinach and Stephanus, Philo and Josephus: A Note on the Testimonium Flavianum Jewish Perspectives JOSHUA LEVINSON ? When in Rome EYAL BEN-ELIYAHU ? Where were the Two Huts of Remus and Romulus in Rome? Influence and Competition HILLEL NEWMAN ? The Hebrew Book of Elijah and Commodian's Carmen de duobus populis ISRAEL JACOB YUVAL ? And the Rest is History: Sabbath versus Sunday List of Contributors Subject Index‎