Sous la direction de

Katell Berthelot

Reconsidering Roman power

Roman, Greek, Jewish and Christian perceptions
and reactions

Parution : 10/06/2020 Collection de l’École française de Rome 564 Rome : École française de Rome, 2020
530 p., illustrations n/b
ISBN : 978-2-7283-1408-9

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Among the imperial states of the ancient world, the Roman empire stands out for its geographical extent, its longevity and its might. This collective volume investigates how the many peoples inhabiting Rome’s vast empire perceived, experienced, and reacted to both the concrete and the ideological aspects of Roman power. More precisely, it explores how they dealt with Roman might through their religious and political rituals; what they regarded as the empire’s distinctive features, as well as its particular limitations and weaknesses; what forms of criticism they developed towards the way Romans exercised power; and what kind of impact the encounter with Roman power had upon the ways they defined themselves and reflected about power in general.
This volume is unusual in bringing Jewish, and especially rabbinic, sources and perspectives together with Roman, Greek or Christian ones. This is the result of its being part of the research program “Judaism and Rome” (ERC Grant Agreement no. 614 424), dedicated to the study of the impact of the Roman empire upon ancient Judaism.

Avec les contributions de Federico Russo, Nadav Sharon, Hervé Inglebert, Greg Woolf, Onno Van Nijf, Sam Van Dijk, Emmanuelle Rosso Caponio, Caroline Barron, Myles Lavan, Elizabeth Depalma Digeser, Julien Dubouloz, Jonathan J. Price, Sébastien Morlet, Marie Roux, Yael Wilfand, Nathanael J. Andrade, Seth Schwartz, Natalie Dohrmann, Christine Hayes, Markus Vinzent.

REVUE DE PRESSE

Ron Clarke, Review of Biblical Literature, 2024/8.

Stéphane Benoist, Gnomon. Kritische Zeitschrift für die gesamte Klassische Altertumswissenschaft, 5/96, 2024, p. 420-424.

Daniëlle Slootjes, Latomus. Revue d’études latines, 82/2, 2023, p. 379-382.

Anna Heller, Revue des études anciennes, 123/2, 2021, p. 700-703, en ligne.

Sous la direction de

Katell Berthelot

Katell Berthelot is a CNRS Professor working on the history of Jews and Judaism in the Greco-Roman world, and a member of the TDMAM research center at Aix-Marseille University (UMR 7297). In 2014-2019 she was the Principal Investigator of the ERC “Judaism and Rome”.