Van Maaren, John. The Boundaries of Jewishness in the Southern Levant 200 BCE–132 CE: Power, Strategies, and Ethnic Configurations. SJ 118. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2022.I noted the publication of the book here.... Overall, this is an excellent volume which offers a robust overview of various strategies of group management, exercised through the deployment of ideologies that present views on ancient Jewish ethnicity, against a backdrop of political change in the southern Levant. The integration of Wimmer’s methodology is excellent and brings new insights to the material that otherwise may resist such a mapping into discourses on ethnicity.
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