The Boundaries of Jewishness in the Southern Levant 200 BCE–132 CE: Power, Strategies, and Ethnic Configurations
Recent research has considered how changing imperial contexts influence conceptions of Jewishness among ruling elites (esp. Eckhardt, Ethnos und Herrschaft, 2013). This study integrates other, often marginal, conceptions with elite perspectives. It uses the ethnic boundary making model, an empirical...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin Boston
De Gruyter
[2022]
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| In: | Year: 2022 |
| Series/Journal: | Studia Judaica Forschungen zur Wissenschaft des Judentums
118 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Levant (Süd)
/ Jews
/ Ethnic identity
/ Social history studies 200 BC-132
B Classical antiquity / Judaism / Cultural identity / History 200-132 |
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Hasmonäer
B Historical sociology B Herodes I B Religion / Judaism / History B Antiochos IV |
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Cover (Verlag) Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Parallel Edition: | Erscheint auch als: 9783110787481 Erscheint auch als: 9783110787382 |
| Summary: | Recent research has considered how changing imperial contexts influence conceptions of Jewishness among ruling elites (esp. Eckhardt, Ethnos und Herrschaft, 2013). This study integrates other, often marginal, conceptions with elite perspectives. It uses the ethnic boundary making model, an empirically based sociological model, to link macro-level characteristics of the social field with individual agency in ethnic construction. It uses a wide range of written sources as evidence for constructions of Jewishness and relates these to a local-specific understanding of demographic and institutional characteristics, informed by material culture. The result is a diachronic study of how institutional changes under Seleucid, Hasmonean, and Early Roman rule influenced the ways that members of the ruling elite, retainer class, and marginalized groups presented their preferred visions of Jewishness. These sometimes-competing visions advance different strategies to maintain, rework, or blur the boundaries between Jews and others. The study provides the next step toward a thick description of Jewishness in antiquity by introducing needed systematization for relating written sources from different social strata with their contexts |
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| ISBN: | 3110787458 |
| Access: | Restricted Access |