Review of Cotton, Roman rule and Jewish life

BRYN MAYR CLASSICAL REVIEW: Roman rule and Jewish life: collected papers.

Hannah M. Cotton, Ofer Pogorelsky, Roman rule and Jewish life: collected papers. Studia Judaica, 89. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2022. Pp. xxxii, 607. ISBN 9783110191448

Review by
Shoni Lavie-Driver, Jesus College, Cambridge. sbl31@cam.ac.uk

... Overall, this book contains something to appeal to scholars of many different interests—the relationship everyday subjects of the Roman Empire had to the imperial system and its treatment of them; the relationship between culture, language and empire; the legal and administrative functioning of the empire; the evolution of Jewish law; and the history of Roman Judaea and Nabataea-Arabia specifically. None of the papers have been superseded, but some have arguably received less attention than is due. ...

I noted the publication of the book here.

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