Jews and Their Roman Rivals: Pagan Rome's Challenge to Israel
Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Maps -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Note on Translations -- Introduction -- 1. Recontextualizing Israel's Encounter with the Roman Empire in the Longue Durée -- 2. A Survey of Scholarship on "Rome and Jerusalem" -- 3. Responses to...
| Summary: | Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Maps -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Note on Translations -- Introduction -- 1. Recontextualizing Israel's Encounter with the Roman Empire in the Longue Durée -- 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 |
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| ISBN: | 0691220425 |