By Paul R. Trebilco
ISBN-10: 0521401208
ISBN-13: 9780521401203
Scholarly overview of Jewish groups within the Hellenistic and Graeco-Roman Diaspora has, long ago, been ruled via our wisdom of the massive and influential groups in Rome and Alexandria. This booklet brings jointly the proof for major Jewish groups in one other a part of the Diaspora, particularly Asia Minor. through collating archaeological, epigraphic, classical, New testomony and patristic resources, the publication offers a useful and coherent description of the lifetime of Jewish groups in Asia Minor, and so offers a extra whole photograph than used to be formerly on hand of Jewish existence on the time. by means of describing the energy, power and variety of Jewish existence in Asia Minor, the writer is ready to aspect to the retention in their Jewish identification by way of those groups, regardless of their shut kinfolk with the broader pagan society during which they lived. a level of integration didn't, accordingly, suggest the abandonment of an energetic attachment to Jewish culture. The survey the publication offers therefore contributes to our knowing of the recent testomony and of early Christianity.
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I will now survey the various references to Jewish communities in Asia Minor in Acts. In Pisidian Antioch (actually in Phrygia) Paul was invited to speak at the synagogue and many Jews and proselytes were convinced by his words. The next Sabbath many Gentiles also came to hear Paul and this made other Jews envious (£fjA,o<;)> so they opposed the message and the messengers (Acts 13:14-47). Perhaps the basis for their Cfjtax; was that Paul was much more successful than they had been at attracting Gentiles.
Apart from the continuing prohibition of proselytism, we have no evidence for restrictions being placed on Jewish communities before Constantine. Under Christian Emperors, the existing rights of Jewish com munities were upheld; repressive measures were generally limited to preventing any further expansion of Judaism. 131 132 133 9 Conclusions We have been able to establish a number of important details about the Jewish communities in Asia Minor. The first communities for which we have evidence were settled by Antiochus III in Lydia and Phrygia on favourable terms which would have helped them to become established.
As we have found before, it is often clear that the Jewish communities have approached the Roman authorities requesting the decrees which contained the statement of these general privileges. Whilst the decrees were written by non-Jews, they express the intent of the Jewish communities of Asia Minor to live in accordance with 'ancestral tradition' or 'with their own laws' and the willingness of the Roman authorities to permit this to happen. When this is combined with the observation that Jews probably requested these privileges and with our findings on the synagogue, the Temple tax, the Sabbath, and the food laws, we have sufficient evidence to be confident that the Jewish communities in Asia Minor in the period covered by these documents (between 49 BCE and 2 CE) belonged to the mainstream of Jewish life since these facets (along with others such as circumcision about which these documents are silent) were fundamental to Jewish identity at this time.
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