Abbreviations

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Abbreviations ix
4. Introduction. Rethinking Romanness, Provincializing Christendom 1
5. Part I. Rabbis and Other Roman Sub- Elites
6. Introduction Part I 25
7. Chapter 1. The Afterlives of the Torah’s Ethnic Language: The Sifra and Clement on Leviticus 18.1– 5 29
8. Chapter 2. The Kingdom of Edessa and the Creation of a Christian Aristocracy 43
9. Chapter 3. Law and Imperial Idioms: Rabbinic Legalism in a Roman World 63
10. Chapter 4. The Law of Moses and the Jews: Rabbis, Ethnic Marking, and Romanization 79
11. Part II. Christianization and Other Modalities of Romanization
12. Introduction Part II 95
13. Chapter 5. There Is No Place Like Home: Rabbinic Responses to the Christianization of Palestine 99
14. Chapter 6. Between Gaza and Minorca: The (Un)Making of Minorities in Late Antiquity 121
15. Chapter 7. Christian Historiographers’ Reflections on Jewish- Christian Violence in Fifth- Century Alexandria 137
16. Chapter 8. Narrating Salvation: Verbal Sacrifices in Late Antique Liturgical Poetry 154
17. Chapter 9. Israelite Kingship, Christian Rome, and the Jewish Imperial Imagination: Midrashic Precursors to the Medieval “Throne of Solomon” 167
18. Part III. Continuity and Rupture
19. Introduction Part III 185
20. Chapter 10. Chains of Tradition from Avot to the ′Avodah Piyutim 189
21. Chapter 11. Change and Continuity in Late Legal Papyri from Palaestina Tertia: Nomos Hellênikos and Ethos Rômaikon 209
22. Chapter 12. The Representation of the Temple and Jerusalem in Jewish and Christian Houses of Prayer in the Holy Land in Late Antiquity 222
23. Chapter 13. Roman Christianity and the Post- Roman West: The Social Correlates of the Contra Iudaeos Tradition 249
24. Notes 267
25. Select Bibliography of Secondary Sources 345
26. Contributors 379
27. Index of Selected Primary Sources 383
28. Acknowledgments 389