Legal engagement the reception of Roman law and tribunals by Jews and other inhabitants of the empire edited by Katell Berthelot, Natalie Dohrmann and Capucine Nemo-Pekelman

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Berthelot, Katell, editor.

Dohrmann, Natalie B., editor.

Nemo-Pekelman, Capucine, 1973- editor.

École française de Rome, issuing body.

Series:

Collection de l'École française de Rome

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rome--Politics and government--30 B.C.-476 A.D--Congresses.

Rome.

Rome--History--Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D--Congresses.

Roman law--Reception--Congresses.

Roman law.

Jews--Legal status, laws, etc--Rome--Congresses.

Jews.

Religion and law--Rome--Congresses.

Religion and law.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (535 pages) illustrations

Place of Publication:

Rome École française de Rome 2021

Contents:

Cicero, law, and the barbarians / Carlos Lévy

Accommodating former legal systems and Roman law : Cicero’s rhetorical and legal perspective in the Verrine orations / Julien Dubouloz

Performing justice in republican empire, 1-565 CE / Clifford Ando

A frenzy of sovereignty : Punishment in P.Aktenbuch / Ari Z. Bryen

Between the good king and the cruel tyrant : The Acta Isidori and the perception of Roman emperors among provincial litigants / Kaius Tuori

Pappus and Julianus, the Maccabaean martyrs, and rabbinic martyrdom history in Late Antiquity / Hayim Lapin

Appealing for the emperor’s justice : Provincial petitions and imperial responses prior to Late Antiquity / Aitor Blanco-Pérez

Representing the rights of a city : Julien Fournier : Ekdikoi in Roman courts / Julien Fournier

Jewish judicial patrons and advocates in the Western Roman Empire (5th century) / Capucine Nemo-Pekelman

Legal pluralism in the Western Roman Empire : Popular legal sources and legal history / Soazick Kerneis

Judicial pluralism in the Visigothic kingdom of Toulouse : Special jurisdictions and communal courts / Marie Roux

Legal knowledge and its transmission in three marriage contracts from the Judaean desert / Kimberley Czajkowski

Imperialism and the creation of local law : The case of rabbinic law / Yair Furstenberg

Did Palestinian rabbis know Roman law? : Methodological considerations and case studies / Catherine Hezser

A rabbinic postliminium : The property of captives in tannaitic halakhah in light of Roman Law / Orit Malka et Yakir Paz

“A proselyte whose sons converted with him” : Roman laws on new citizens’ authority over their children and tannaitic rulings on converts to Judaism and their offspring / Yael Wilfand

Ad similitudinem arbitrorum : On the perils of commensurability and comparison in Roman and rabbinic law / Natalie B. Dohrmann

“Not like our Rock is their rock” (Deut 32:31) : Rabbinic perceptions of Roman courts and jurisdiction / Katell Berthelot

The rabbinic model of sovereignty in biblical and imperial contexts / Ron Naiweld

Early Christian perspectives on Roman law and Mosaic law / Kimberley Fowler

“Barbarians” judge the law : The rabbis on the uncivil law of Rome / Christine Hayes

Notes:

"This collection of papers originates in two conferences that took place respectively in Oxford (Maison Française d'Oxford) in June 2015 and in Aix-en-Provence (Maison Méditerranéenne des Sciences de l'Homme, Aix-Marseille University) in June 2018"--Acknowledgments

Includes bibliographical references and index

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ISBN:

9782728314652

2728314659

OCLC:

1403070465

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