Negotiating Diaspora: Jewish Strategies in the Roman Empire (2004 Barclay), edited volume

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Negotiating Diaspora: Jewish Strategies in the Roman Empire (2004) is a volume edited by John M.G. Barclay.

Abstract

"The study of the ancient Jewish Diaspora is developing in exciting new directions as a result of fresh archaeological material and new frameworks of interpretation. The six studies collected in this volume have been composed by an international group of scholars at the forefront of Diaspora studies and explore key features of the cultural dynamics of the Jewish Diaspora. Studies on Jews in Rome (Margaret Williams) and Alexandria (Sarah Pearce) examine the dialectic of local and translocal identities, including a new theory on Jewish sabbath-fasting in Rome. Through careful analysis of inscriptions in the Balkans (Alexander Panayotov, in the first study of the material in English) and Asia Minor (Paul Trebilco), the often ambiguous expression of Diaspora Jews is examined. Two essays on the historian Josephus (by James McLaren and John Barclay) examine his crafted reconstructions of Judaean history, and indicate his subaltern tactics, deploying the tools of colonial culture for the advantage of his own. A thorough Introduction relates these studies to the broader field of 'Diaspora studies' in current cultural anthropology."--Publisher description.

Editions

Published in London [England] and New York, NY: T&T Clark Internatonal, 2004 (Library of Second Temple Studies, 45).

Table of contents

Part 1 - Local and translocal identities.

  • Being a Jew in Rome: Sabbath fasting as an expression of Romano-Jewish identity / Margaret Williams
  • Jerusalem as 'mother-city' in the writings of Philo of Alexandria / Sarah Pearce

Part 2 - Clarity and ambiguity in cultural expression.

  • The Jews in the Balkan provinces of the Roman empire: The evidence from the territory of Bulgaria / Alexander Panayotov
  • The Christian and Jewish Eumeneian formula / Paul Trebilco

Part 3 - Josephus, power and the politics of representation.

  • Constructing Judaean history in the Diaspora: Josephus's accounts of Judas / James S. McLaren
  • The politics of contempt: Judaeans and Egyptians in Josephus's Against Apion / John M.G. Barclay

External links

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