Interdisciplinary Studies in Ancient Culture and Religion, 3: Jewish Culture and Society Under the Christian Roman Empire

Kalmin, Richard; Seth Schwartz. Interdisciplinary Studies in Ancient Culture and Religion, 3: Jewish Culture and Society Under the Christian Roman Empire. Leuven: Peeters, 2003. First edition. Quarto. VI, 485pp. Original printed wraps. Printer’s device on title-page.Scholar work investigating the complexity, diversity, uniqueness and enduring significance of Jewish life in the Christian Roman Empire, from 312 to 634 C.E. During this period there occurred an unprecedented Jewish cultural explosion, encompassing the compilation and/or composition of such texts as the Palestinian Talmud, the main haggadic midrashim, an extensive magical/mystical literature, the revived apocalypse, a vast corpus of piyyutim and the beginnings of a practically oriented halakhic literature. As new condition. vg. Softcover. (27495) $95