"This volume originated in a conference that took place at the École française de Rome, on May 10-12, 2017"--Title page verso. Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents:
"Christianity": a response to Roman-Jewish conflict / Markus Vinzent. Rome and the four-empires scheme in Pre-Rabbinic Jewish literature / Nadav Sharon -- Comparer Rome, Alexandre et Babylone: la question de l'exceptionnalité de l'empire de Rome aux IVe-VIe siècles / Hervé Inglebert -- The rulers ruled / Greg Woolf -- Experiencing Roman power at Greek contests: Romaia in the Greek festival network / Onno van Nuf and Sam van Duk -- Personnifications de Rome et du pouvoir romain en Asie Mineure: quelques exemples / Emmanuelle Rosso Caponio -- The (lost) Arch of Titus: the visibility and prominence of victory in Flavian Rome / Caroline Barron -- Devastation: the destruction of populations and human landscapes and the Roman imperial project / Myles Lawn -- Apollo, Christ, and Mithras: Constantine in Gallia Belgica / Elizabeth DePalma Digeser -- Governer l'empire, se gouverner soi-même: réflexions sur la notion de maiestas dans la littérature de la République de du Principat / Julien Dubouloz -- Structural weaknesses in Rome's power? Greek historians' views on Roman stasis / Jonathan J. Price -- Power and piety: Roman and Jewish perspectives / Katell Berthelot -- Ce que peut l'Empire: les caractéristiques et les limites du pouvoir romain d'apres l'Histoire ecclésiastique d'Eusèbe de Césarée / Sébastien Morlet -- Animalizing the Romans: the use of animal metaphors by ancient authors to criticize Roman power or its agents / Marie Roux -- Alexander the Great in the Jerusalem Talmud and Genesis Rabbah: a critique of Roman power, greed and cruelty / Yael Wilfand -- Romans and Iranians: experiences of imperial governance in Roman Mesopotamia / Nathanael J. Andrade -- The Mishnah and the limits of Roman power / Seth Schwartz -- Jewish books and Roman readers: censorship, authorship, and the rabbinic library / Natalie Dohrmann -- Roman power through rabbinic eyes: tragedy or comedy? / Christine Hayes -- "Christianity": a response to Roman-Jewish conflict / Markus Vinzent.
Summary:
Among the imperial states of the ancient world, the Roman empire stands out for its geographical extent, its longevity and its might. This collective volume investigates how the many peoples inhabiting Rome's vast empire perceived, experienced, and reacted to both the concrete and the ideological aspects of Roman power. More precisely, it explores how they dealt with Roman might through their religious and political rituals; what they regarded as the empire's distinctive features, as well as its particular limitations and weaknesses; what forms of criticism they developed towards the way Romans exercised power; and what kind of impact the encounter with Roman power had upon the ways they defined themselves and reflected about power in general.This volume is unusual in bringing Jewish, and especially rabbinic, sources and perspectives together with Roman, Greek or Christian ones. This is the result of its being part of the research program "Judaism and Rome" (ERC Grant Agreement no. 614 424), dedicated to the study of the impact of the Roman empire upon ancient Judaism.
Series:
Collection de l'École française de Rome, 0223-5099 ; 564
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