The Jews in the Roman Empire

Legal Problems, from Herod to Justinian

Alfredo Mordechai Rabello

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English

Ashgate Publishing Limited
16 June 2000

Asian history; Ancient history: to c 500 CE; Interfaith relations; Religious intolerance, persecution & conflict; Judaism

Series: Variorum Collected Studies

This text focuses on the legal status of the Jews within the Roman Empire and the changes that this underwent when the empire became Christian. Conflicts between Roman and Jewish jurisdiction form an important theme, while particular studies deal with questions of conversion, the observance of the Sabbath and Festivals, Hadrian's decree prohibiting circumcision, and with the treatment given to the Samaritans. In the field of family law, Profesor Rabello looks at issues to do with the patria potestas, family courts, marriage and divorce, and it is in these areas, he would hold, that a basic understanding can be found of how the early Catholic Church treated Jews and Judaism.

By: Alfredo Mordechai Rabello
Imprint: Ashgate Publishing Limited
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Volume: CS 645
Dimensions: Height: 224mm, Width: 150mm, Spine: 154mm
Weight: 657g
ISBN: 9780860786627
ISBN 10: 0860786625
Series: Variorum Collected Studies
Pages: 384
Publication Date: 16 June 2000
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Contents: Civil justice in Palestine from 63 BCE to 70 CE; Herod’s domestic court? The judgment of death for Herod’s sons; The ’Lex de Templo Hierosolymitano’, prohibiting Gentiles from entering Jerusalem’s Sanctuary; The situation of the Jews in Roman Spain; The ban on circumcision as a cause of Bar Kokhbah’s rebellion; On the relations between Diocletian and the Jews; La première loi de Théodose II, C.Th.XVI, 8, 18, et la fÃªte de Pourim; L’observance des fÃªtes juives dans l’Empire romain; Divorce of Jews in the Roman Empire; Il problema dei matrimoni fra Ebrei e Cristiani nella legislazione imperiale e in quella della Chiesa (IV-VI secolo); The Samaritans in Justinian’s Corpus Iuris Civilis; Jewish and Roman jurisdiction; Civil Jewish jurisdiction in the days of Emperor Justinian (527-565): Codex Justinianus 1.9.8; The attitude of Rome towards conversions to Judaism (atheism, circumcision, proselytism); A tribute to Jean Juster; Index.

Alfredo Mordechai Rabello, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Reviews for The Jews in the Roman Empire: Legal Problems, from Herod to Justinian

'... an excellent initiative...' Revue des Etudes Juives 'Whatever language he employs, be it English, French or Italian, Rabello writes with a pleasing clarity and an easy authority. Classicists and ancient historians will learn much from the papers collected here about the legal status of the Jews in the Roman empire, a subject that for far too long has remained far too difficult to access.' Latomus