عنوان

A Rural Jewish Community in Late Roman Mesopotamia, and the Question of a "Split" Jewish Diaspora

شماره

LA118694

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

A Rural Jewish Community in Late Roman Mesopotamia, and the Question of a "Split" Jewish Diaspora

نام عام مواد

[Article]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Fergus Millar

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

This paper emphasises the significance of Syriac evidence for the history of the Jewish Diaspora, and then focuses on an episode in the Syriac Lives of the Eastern Saints by John of Ephesus, which records the demolition by the local Christians of the synagogue of a Jewish community established in a village in the territory of Amida. The significance of this story is explored in two inter-related ways. Firstly, there is the relevance of Syriac-speaking Christianity which, like Judaism, was practised on both sides of the Roman-Sasanid border. Secondly, the article suggests that the presence of Jewish communities in those areas of the Roman empire where Syriac or other dialects of Aramaic were spoken complicates the recently-proposed conception of a "split" Jewish Diaspora, of which a large part was unable to receive rabbinic writings because it knew only Greek. But for Jews living in areas where Aramaic or Syriac was spoken, there should have been no major linguistic barrier to the reception of the rabbinic learning of either Palestine or Babylonia. This paper emphasises the significance of Syriac evidence for the history of the Jewish Diaspora, and then focuses on an episode in the Syriac Lives of the Eastern Saints by John of Ephesus, which records the demolition by the local Christians of the synagogue of a Jewish community established in a village in the territory of Amida. The significance of this story is explored in two inter-related ways. Firstly, there is the relevance of Syriac-speaking Christianity which, like Judaism, was practised on both sides of the Roman-Sasanid border. Secondly, the article suggests that the presence of Jewish communities in those areas of the Roman empire where Syriac or other dialects of Aramaic were spoken complicates the recently-proposed conception of a "split" Jewish Diaspora, of which a large part was unable to receive rabbinic writings because it knew only Greek. But for Jews living in areas where Aramaic or Syriac was spoken, there should have been no major linguistic barrier to the reception of the rabbinic learning of either Palestine or Babylonia.

تاريخ نشر

2011

توصيف ظاهري

351-374

عنوان

Journal for the Study of Judaism

شماره جلد

42/3

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

1570-0631

اصطلاح موضوعی

Jewish Aramaic

اصطلاح موضوعی

Jewish communities

اصطلاح موضوعی

Late Antiquity

اصطلاح موضوعی

Roman Mesopotamia

اصطلاح موضوعی

Syriac

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Fergus Millar

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/157006311X586269

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y