Marginalized religion and the law in the Roman Empire / K.P.S. Janssen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Janssen, Karen Petra Servatius, 1992- author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religious minorities--Legal status, laws, etc--Rome.

Religious minorities.

Rome--Religion.

Rome.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (409 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2024]

Summary:

'Marginalized Religion and the Law in the Roman Empire' investigates how members of various marginalized religious groups were embedded in, and interacted with, the wider Roman legal system. K.P.S. Janssen argues that despute differences between the group, their legal positions shared important characteristics.

Contents:

Cover

Marginalized Religion and the Law in the Roman Empire

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgements

List of Figures

Introduction

0.1 Marginalized Religion and the Law: A Comparative Approach

0.2 Sources and Scope

0.3 Methodology and Terminology

1: Roman Law and Administration

1.1 Introduction

1.2 Sources of Law

1.3 Upholding Public Order: Trials and Police Actions

1.4 Roman Administration in the Provinces

1.4.1 Governors and locals

1.4.2 Centre and province

1.5 Conclusion

2: Divination in Roman Legal Measures

2.1 Introduction

2.2 Terminology and Definitions

2.3 Outline and Central Questions

2.4 Divination in the Republic: Early Interactions

2.4.1 Suppression of diviners and foreign priests during the Second Punic War

2.4.2 The expulsion measure of Cn. Cornelius Hispalus

2.4.3 The expulsion measure of Marcus Agrippa

2.5 Augustan Measures: A Precedent?

2.5.1 The Sibylline books and the destruction of oracular texts

2.5.2 Limiting divinatory enquiries?

2.6 Divination and Conspiracy under Tiberius

2.6.1 Repeating Augustan measures?

2.6.2 The trial of M. Scribonius Libo Drusus

2.6.3 Expulsion(s) from Rome

2.6.4 Later trials under Tiberius

2.7 Trials and Expulsions under the Later Julio-Claudians

2.7.1 Caligula: divination in Egypt

2.7.2 Claudius: trials and expulsion

2.7.3 Nero: trials-and expulsion?

2.8 The Year of the Four Emperors and the Flavians

2.8.1 Otho and Vitellius: diviners in times of crisis

2.8.2 Vespasian: expulsion

2.8.3 Divination under Domitian

2.9 Later Incidents: Completing the Picture

2.10 The Jurists: Creating Coherence

2.11 Conclusion

3: Judaism in Roman Legal Measures

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Terminology and Definitions

3.3 Outline and Central Questions.

3.4 Early Points of Contact: Judea and Rome

3.5 Judaism under Rome: Early Legal Measures

3.5.1 Lucius Valerius Flaccus and the Jewish communities of Asia

3.5.2 Flavius Josephus: collecting legal interactions

3.5.3 Dispensation from military duties: a collection

3.6 Jewish Communities under Julius Caesar

3.7 Legal Measures between Caesar and Augustus

3.8 Augustan Measures: Precedented Benevolence

3.8.1 Delegations from Asia Minor and Cyrene

3.8.2 Temple Tax in Asia Minor: passing on the message

3.8.3 Augustan measures in Alexandria and Rome

3.9 Expulsion under Tiberius

3.10 Riots in Alexandria: The Question of 'Belonging'

3.10.1 Alexandria's Jewish community: position and privileges

3.10.2 The origins and progression of the riots

3.10.3 The role of the Roman authorities

3.11 The Reign of Claudius: Limited Support

3.11.1 Claudius' letter to the Alexandrians

3.11.2 To the entire world?

3.11.3 Expulsion under Claudius

3.12 The Time of Nero: The Road to War

3.13 The Early Flavians: Taxation and Intervention

3.13.1 Intervention in Antioch

3.13.2 The Jewish Tax

3.13.3 The aftermath of the revolt in Alexandria and Cyrene

3.13.4 After the revolt

3.14 Domitian and Nerva: Changes in the Jewish Tax

3.14.1 Domitian: harsh enforcement

3.14.2 Nerva: restoring order

3.15 Trajan and Hadrian: The Causes and Consequences of Revolt

3.15.1 The Diaspora revolt

3.15.2 The Bar Kokhba Revolt

3.16 The Late Second and Early Third Centuries: Completing the Picture

3.17 Conclusion

4: Early Christianity in Roman Legal Measures

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Terminology and Definitions

4.3 Outline and Central Questions

4.4 Before the Institutum Neronianum : Early Interactions

4.4.1 Paul in the eastern Mediterranean: legal interaction in Acts

4.4.2 Roman officials in Acts.

4.4.3 Claudius' expulsion: Christian involvement?

4.4.4 Peter and Paul in Rome?

4.5 Christians under Nero: Smoke and Fire?

4.5.1 Tacitus on Christians and the Great Fire

4.5.2 Christians under Nero according to Suetonius

4.6 Pliny and Trajan: The First Trial?

4.6.1 Letters from the province

4.6.2 Christians in Bithynia-Pontus

4.6.3 Seeking and shaping imperial guidance

4.6.4 Imperial response

4.7 Hadrian and Minucius Fundanus: An Obscured View

4.8 Antoninus Pius: Dubious Accounts

4.8.1 The trial of Polycarp

4.8.2 A rescript to Asia?

4.8.3 The trial of Ptolemaeus and Lucius

4.9 Marcus Aurelius: Christians and the Philosopher-Emperor

4.9.1 Anti-Christian actions in Asia

4.9.2 The trial of Justin Martyr

4.9.3 Marcus Aurelius protecting Christians?

4.9.4 Anti-Christian actions in Lyon

4.10 Commodus and the Severans: Diverse Approaches

4.10.1 The trial of the Scillitan Martyrs

4.10.2 Diverse proceedings in northern Africa

4.10.3 The trial of Perpetua

4.11 The Road to a General Law?

4.12 Conclusion

Conclusion

5.1 Marginalized Religion in the Roman Empire

5.2 Geographical and Temporal Scope

5.3 Legal Actors and Negotiations

5.4 Arguments and Underlying Considerations

5.5 Slow Emergence of Procedure

5.6 Tests and Recantations

5.7 Marginalized Religion and the Law: A Wider Framework

Appendices

APPENDIX 1: Divination

APPENDIX 2: Judaism

APPENDIX 3: Christianity

References

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on October 18, 2024).

ISBN:

9780191946400

0191946400

9780192668707

0192668706

OCLC:

1461837426