Jews in Roman Imperial Legislation
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| Rating | : | 4.17 (830 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0814318096 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 444 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-12-02 |
| Language | : | Hebrew |
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Co-published with The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Jerusalem.. The Jews in Roman Imperial Legislation is his first book. from the University of Dijon, he has written numerous articles dealing with historical issues from the late classical and medieval periods. A Ph.D. Amnon Linder is assistant professor of history at The Hebrew University of Jerusal
a must have guide to jewish life under the roman empire Renato S. Grun Linder provides one of the most accurate scholarly research on this field. All the legislation concerning the jews are arranged methodically making it easier to study them. They are: Which prohibitions and permissions had Jews living under the Roman Empire? What are the sources of Roman law, their places, how long they had effect, what were the reactions derived from it and events that led to them?These resources will provide the most substantial information for research of Jews living under the Roman rule.
Language Notes Text: English, Hebrew, Latin, Greek (translation)
Historians, however, have been hampered to a considerable extent by the absence of a complete collection of the relevant texts. to Justinian's codifications in the sixth century. Selected bibliographies enable further study of each law. Editor Amnon Linder has identified, dated, and combined all extant texts in order to reconstruct, as far as possible, the original legislation. Historians recognize the important contribution of Roman law to the evolution of attitudes adopted by non-Jewish society toward Jews. Linder's work enables historians to use a corpus of primary sources of the greatest importance which bear on the study of the Roman empire and its relations with Jews.. Summarizing the historical evidence within the texts, Linder describes the criteria he employs in reconstructing the 'original laws' out of 'transmitted laws.' He considers the legislative process, the dissemination of the laws, their validity and preservation, and outlines their effect on relations not only among Jews, but between Jews and non-Jews as well. Roman legislation on the Jews also constitutes one of the major sources for the study of Jewish history in late antiquity and in the Middle Ages. In an extensive, two-chapter introduction, Linder discusses the texts and their various characteristics in detail. He presents each text in a critical edition with its English translation and adds a sho