Military Service and the Integration of Jews into the Roman Empire

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

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Beskrivning

According to Raúl González Salinero, the plurality of religious expressions within Judaism prior to the predominance of the rabbinical current disproves the assumption according to which some Jewish customs and precepts (especially the Sabbath) prevented Jews from joining the Roman army without renouncing their ancestral culture. The military exemption occasionally granted to the Jews by the Roman authorities was compatible with their voluntary enlistment (as it was in the Hellenistic armies) in order to obtain Roman citizenship. As the sources attest, Judaism did not pose any insurmountable obstacle to integration of the Jews into the Roman world. They achieved a noteworthy presence in the Roman army by the fourth century CE, at which time the Church’s influence over imperial power led to their exclusion from the militia armata.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2022-02-10
Mått:155 x 235 x 20 mm
Vikt:518 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Brill Reference Library of Judaism
Antal sidor:222
Förlag:Brill
ISBN:9789004506756

Utforska kategorier

Militärhistoria inom Historia och arkeologi
Judendom inom Filosofi och religion

Mer om författaren

Raúl González Salinero, Ph.D. (1997), University of Salamanca, is a Lecturer in Ancient History at UNED (Madrid). He has been a Visiting Scholar at the Universities of Parma, Sorbonne-Paris IV, Bari Aldo Moro, Cambridge, and Bologna.

Recensioner i media

"González-Salinero has written the sine qua non for any study of Jews in the Roman army.Anyone interested in ancient Jewish history, the Roman army, or indeed the question of the intersection of ethnicity and military service will benefit from reading this book."- Jonathan Roth, San Jose State University, in Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2022.11.25.

Innehållsförteckning

PrefaceList of FiguresIntroduction1 Jewish Military Service in Hellenistic Armies1 Precedents2 Under the Ptolemies3 Under the Seleucids4 Apologetics and Historical Reality2 Jewish Exemptions from Military Service in the Late Republic and the Augustan Principate1 Jews and the Recruitment of Auxilia2 Military Exemption as a Jewish Privilege3 A Legal Precedent?3 Jewish Soldiers in the Roman Army during the High Empire1 Exceptional Recruitment2 Jewish Troops in Roman Service3 Material Evidence4 Dura-Europos5 The Presence of Jews in the Imperial Army: Conditions and Historical Evolution4 During the Later Roman Empire1 Material Evidence2 Under the Christian EmpireConclusionAppendix 1: Violence and the Use of Arms on SabbathAppendix 2: The Inscription of Rufinus the Soldier, from the Via Appia Pignatelli Catacomb (Rome)Appendix 3: A Critical Rereading of the Inscription of Flavia Optata Found in ConcordiaProsopographic MapSourcesBibliographyAnalytical Index