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Levine, Rabbi Menachem, 2023, The Jewish History of Rome Aish; Mclaren, James S. 2013. "The Jews in Rome during the Flavian Period." Antichthon 47:156–172. Pucci Ben Zeev, Miriam. 1998. Jewish Rights in the Roman World: The Greek and Roman Documents Quoted by Josephus Flavius. Tübingen, Germany: Mohr. Rutgers, Leonard Victor. 2000.
For Rome's earliest period, history and myth are difficult to distinguish. [7] According to mythology, Rome had a semi-divine ancestor in the Trojan refugee Aeneas, son of Venus, who was said to have established the basis of Roman religion when he brought the Palladium, Lares and Penates from Troy to Italy.
The book is a scholarly investigation of how Jewish communities in Roman-ruled territories engaged with the institution of the public bathhouse. Written by Yaron Z. Eliav and published by Princeton University Press in 2023, the book analyzes a wide range of evidence—literary, archaeological, and historical—to explore how Jews participated in, adapted to, and occasionally resisted this ...
Jewish cuisine in Rome is a unique blend of traditional Jewish dietary laws and local Italian ingredients. [2] [5] The community's culinary contributions are celebrated and enjoyed by both Jews and non-Jews alike. Dishes such as Carciofi alla giudia (Jewish-style artichokes) and cassola (a type of cheesecake) are iconic examples of Roman-Jewish ...
Routes of Jewish ancient expulsion and deportation. Hellenistic Judaism, originating from Alexandria, was present throughout the Roman Empire even before the Jewish–Roman wars. Large numbers of Jews lived in Greece (including the Greek isles in the Aegean and Crete) as early as the beginning of the 3rd century BCE.
The Zealots took a leading role in the First Jewish–Roman War (66–73 CE), as they objected to Roman rule and violently sought to eradicate it by indiscriminately attacking Romans and Greeks. Another group, likely related, were the Sicarii , who raided Jewish settlements and killed Jews they considered apostates and collaborators, while also ...
As the Roman Republic, and later the Roman Empire, expanded, it came to include people from a variety of cultures, and religions. The worship of an ever increasing number of deities was tolerated and accepted. The government, and the Romans in general, tended to be tolerant towards most religions and religious practices. [1]
The Jewish community in Rome is likely one of the oldest continuous Jewish communities in the world, existing from classical times until today. [ 3 ] Most certainly, it is known that in 139 BCE, Simon Maccabeus sent a Hasmonean embassy to Rome in order to strengthen his alliance with the Roman Republic against the Hellenistic Seleucid kingdom ...