Rome : An empire of many nations : New perspectives on ethnic diversity and cultural identity

Abstract

Ethnicity and identity in the Roman Empire : the case of the Jews -- Religious pluralism in the Roman Empire : did Judaism test the limits of Roman tolerance? / Erich S. Gruen -- Rome's attitude to Jews and Judea after the Great Rebellion-- beyond raison d'état? / Alexander Yakobson -- Between ethnos and populus : the boundaries of being a Jew / Youval Rotman -- Local identities of synagogue communities in the Roman Empire / Jonathan J. Price -- The good the bad and the middling : Roman emperors in Talmudic literature / Yuval Shahar -- The Severans and Rabbi Judah ha-Nasi / Aharon Oppenheimer -- Iudaea/Palaestina -- The Roman Legionary Base in Legio-Kefar 'Othnay-- the evidence from the small finds / Yotam Tepper -- The camp of the Legion X Fretensis and the emergence of Aelia Capitolina / Shlomit Weksler-Bdolah.