Jews, Christians, and the Roman Empire The Poetics of Power in Late Antiquity

includes index and biblioraphy

Introduction: Rethinking romanness, provincializing christendom Annette yoshiko reed and natalie B. Dohrmann ......1 Part 1. Rabbis and other roman sub-elites ......23 1. The afterlives of the torah`s ethics langiage: The sifra and clement on leviticus ......29 2. The kingdom of edessa and the creation of a christian aristocracy ......43 3. Law and imperial idioms: Rabbinic legalism in a Roman world .....63 4. The law of moses and the Jews: ethnic marking, and Romanization ......79 Part II. Christianization and other Modalities of romanization .....93 5. There is no place like home: Rabbinic responses to the christianization of palestine ....99 6. Between Gaza and minorca: The (un)making of minorities in late antiquity ....121 7. Christian historiographers reflections on Jewish-christian violence in fifth-century Alexandria .....137 8. Narrating salvation: Verbal sacrifices in late antique liturgical poetry .....154 9. Israelite kingship, christian rome, and the Jewish imperial imagination: Midrashic precursors to the medieval throne of Solomon .....167 Part III. Continuity and rupture .....183 10. Chains of Tradition from avot to the Avodah piyutim .....189 11. Change and continuity in lae legal papyri from palestina tertia .....209 12. The representation of the Temple and jerusalem in jewish and christian house of prayer in the holy land in late antiquity .....222 13. Roman christianity and the post-Roman west: The social correlates of the contra iudaeos tradition .....249