{"product_id":"imperialism-and-jewish-society-200-b-c-e-to-640-c-e-paperback","title":"Imperialism and Jewish Society: 200 B.C.E. to 640 C.E. - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSeth Schwartz\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis provocative new history of Palestinian Jewish society in antiquity marks the first comprehensive effort to gauge the effects of imperial domination on this people. Probing more than eight centuries of Persian, Greek, and Roman rule, Seth Schwartz reaches some startling conclusions--foremost among them that the Christianization of the Roman Empire generated the most fundamental features of medieval and modern Jewish life. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Schwartz begins by arguing that the distinctiveness of Judaism in the Persian, Hellenistic, and early Roman periods was the product of generally prevailing imperial tolerance. From around 70 C.E. to the mid-fourth century, with failed revolts and the alluring cultural norms of the High Roman Empire, Judaism all but disintegrated. However, late in the Roman Empire, the Christianized state played a decisive role in ''re-Judaizing'' the Jews. The state gradually excluded them from society while supporting their leaders and recognizing their local communities. It was thus in Late Antiquity that the synagogue-centered community became prevalent among the Jews, that there re-emerged a distinctively Jewish art and literature--laying the foundations for Judaism as we know it today. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Through masterful scholarship set in rich detail, this book challenges traditional views rooted in romantic notions about Jewish fortitude. Integrating material relics and literature while setting the Jews in their eastern Mediterranean context, it addresses the complex and varied consequences of imperialism on this vast period of Jewish history more ambitiously than ever before. \u003ci\u003eImperialism in Jewish Society\u003c\/i\u003e will be widely read and much debated.\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Seth Schwartz's work is a much more complex assessment of ancient Jewish society and culture than that which the one-sided traditional accounts present: it is the first consistent and comprehensive attempt to view Jewish society of Hellenistic and Roman-Byzantine times in the context of the broader socio-political, economic, and religious developments of the ancient eastern Mediterranean world. This allows him to interpret the sparse evidence from Roman Palestine in a much more convincing way than has formerly been done.\"\u003cb\u003e--Catherine Hezser, Trinity College, Dublin\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eImperialism and Jewish Society\u003c\/i\u003e comprises a highly ambitious discussion of a very wide sweep of Jewish history, with novel insights into major issues of the general interpretation of that history and into numerous minor matters of a widely disparate nature. There are interesting observations on every page. Nothing quite like it has ever been attempted before.\"\u003cb\u003e--Martin Goodman, Oxford University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeth Schwartz\u003c\/b\u003e is the Gerson D. Cohen Professor of History at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eJosephus and Judaean Politics\u003c\/i\u003e and coauthor, with Roger Bagnall, Alan Cameron, and Klaas Worp, of \u003ci\u003eConsuls of the Later Roman Empire\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 336\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.77 x 9.38 x 6.22 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 01, 2004\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAward:\u003c\/strong\u003e National Jewish Book Award (2001)\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51752108327200,"sku":"9780691117812","price":94.05,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/ea978026983345b1dd65aa28b14205c0.webp?v=1779987917","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/imperialism-and-jewish-society-200-b-c-e-to-640-c-e-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}