The Jews among Pagans and Christians in the Roman Empire (1992 Lieu/North/Rajak), edited volume

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The Jews among Pagans and Christians in the Roman Empire (1992) is a volume edited by Judith Lieu, John A. North, and Tessa Rajak.

Abstract

"In the period of Roman domination there were communities of Jews, some still in Palestine, some dispersed in and around the Roman Empire; they had to face at first the world-wide power of the pagan Romans and later on the emergence of Christianity as an Empire-wide religion. How they coped with these dramatic changes and how they influenced the new forms of religious life that emerged in this period provide the main themes of The Jews Among Pagans and Christians. Essays by the leading scholars in the field together with the introduction by the editors, offer new approaches to understanding the role of Judaism and the pattern of religious interaction characteristic of the period."--Publisher description.

Editions

Published in London and New York, NY: Routledge, 1992.

Contents

Introduction / Judith Lieu, John A. North, and Tessa Rajak

• The Jewish community and its boundaries / Tessa Rajak
• The pre-Christian Paul / Martin Hengel
• Jewish proselytizing in the first century / Martin Goodman
• History and theology in Christian views of Judaism / Judith Lieu
• The Jews of the Graeco-Roman Diaspora between paganism and Christianity, AD 312-438 / Fergus Millar
• Syrian Christianity and Judaism / Hans Drijvers
• From Judaism to Christianity : the Syriac version of the Hebrew Bible / Michael Weitzman
• The development of religious pluralism / John A. North