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020    9781250085764|q(hardback) 
020    1250085764|q(hardback) 
035    (OCoLC)951017542 
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100 1  Visotzky, Burton L. 
245 10 Aphrodite and the rabbis :|bhow the Jews adapted Roman 
       culture to create Judaism as we know it /|cBurton L. 
       Visotzky. 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York :|bSt. Martin's Press,|c2016. 
300    245 pages, [8] pages of plates :|billustrations (some 
       color), map ;|c25 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages [237]-238) and 
       index. 
505 0  Greek, Roman, Hellenist. Jew -- Like a fish out of water? 
       : stories of Judaism in historical context -- Judaisms of 
       the Oikoumene : who were the Jews in the Roman world? -- 
       Esau, Edom, Rome : what did the rabbis really say about 
       the Romans? -- Rabbis learn the three Rs : reading, 
       writing, and Roman rhetoric -- How many languages does a 
       Jew need to know? -- Love of wisdom and love of law : in 
       pursuit of philosophy and justice -- History where it 
       happened -- The handwriting on the wall (and the floor and
       ceiling) : Roman Jewish art -- From temple cult to Roman 
       culture. 
520    "Hard to believe but true: - The Passover Seder is a Greco
       -Roman symposium banquet - The Talmud rabbis presented 
       themselves as Stoic philosophers - Synagogue buildings 
       were Roman basilicas - Hellenistic rhetoric professors 
       educated sons of well-to-do Jews - Zeus-Helios is depicted
       in synagogue mosaics across ancient Israel - The Jewish 
       courts were named after the Roman political institution, 
       the Sanhedrin - In Israel there were synagogues where the 
       prayers were recited in Greek. Historians have long 
       debated the (re)birth of Judaism in the wake of the 
       destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple cult by the Romans
       in 70 CE. What replaced that sacrificial cult was at once 
       something new-indebted to the very culture of the Roman 
       overlords-even as it also sought to preserve what little 
       it could of the old Israelite religion. The Greco-Roman 
       culture in which rabbinic Judaism grew in the first five 
       centuries of the Common Era nurtured the development of 
       Judaism as we still know and celebrate it today. Arguing 
       that its transformation from a Jerusalem-centered cult to 
       a world religion was made possible by the Roman Empire, 
       Rabbi Burton Visotzky presents Judaism as a distinctly 
       Roman religion. Full of fascinating detail from the daily 
       life and culture of Jewish communities across the 
       Hellenistic world, Aphrodite and the Rabbis will appeal to
       anyone interested in the development of Judaism, religion,
       history, art and architecture. "--|cProvided by publisher.
650  0 Judaism|xRelations|xRoman religion. 
650  0 Judaism|xHistory|yTalmudic period, 10-425. 
650  0 Judaism|xRelations|xGreek religion. 
650  0 Jews|xCivilization|xGreek influences. 
650  0 Jews|xCivilization|xRoman influences. 
650  0 Civilization, Classical|xInfluence. 
650  0 Rabbinical literature|xHistory and criticism. 
650  7 RELIGION|xJudaism|xHistory.|2bisacsh 
650  7 ART|xHistory|xAncient & Classical.|2bisacsh 
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