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- Religious Violence in the Ancient World
- Religious Violence in the Ancient World
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of Contributors
- A Note on Abbreviations
- General Introduction
- Part I Methodology
- Part II Religious Violence in the Graeco-Roman World
- Chapter 3 Ancient Greek Binding Spells and (Political) Violence
- Chapter 4 The Expulsion of Isis Worshippers and Astrologers from Rome in the Late Republic and Early Empire
- Chapter 5 Religious Violence? Two Massacres on a Sabbath in 66 ce: Jerusalem and Caesarea
- Chapter 6 Religion, Violence and the Diasporic Experience: The Jewish Diaspora in Flavian Rome and Puteoli
- Chapter 7 Animal Sacrifice and the Roman Persecution of Christians (Second to Third Century)
- Chapter 8 The Great Persecution and Imperial Ideology: Patterns of Communication on Tetrarchic Coinage
- Chapter 9 The Violent Legacy of Constantine’s Militant Piety
- Part III Religious Violence in Late Antiquity
- Index of Sources
- General Index
Chapter 6 - Religion, Violence and the Diasporic Experience: The Jewish Diaspora in Flavian Rome and Puteoli
from Part II - Religious Violence in the Graeco-Roman World
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 September 2020
- Religious Violence in the Ancient World
- Religious Violence in the Ancient World
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of Contributors
- A Note on Abbreviations
- General Introduction
- Part I Methodology
- Part II Religious Violence in the Graeco-Roman World
- Chapter 3 Ancient Greek Binding Spells and (Political) Violence
- Chapter 4 The Expulsion of Isis Worshippers and Astrologers from Rome in the Late Republic and Early Empire
- Chapter 5 Religious Violence? Two Massacres on a Sabbath in 66 ce: Jerusalem and Caesarea
- Chapter 6 Religion, Violence and the Diasporic Experience: The Jewish Diaspora in Flavian Rome and Puteoli
- Chapter 7 Animal Sacrifice and the Roman Persecution of Christians (Second to Third Century)
- Chapter 8 The Great Persecution and Imperial Ideology: Patterns of Communication on Tetrarchic Coinage
- Chapter 9 The Violent Legacy of Constantine’s Militant Piety
- Part III Religious Violence in Late Antiquity
- Index of Sources
- General Index
Summary
It is often stated that religious violence in Roman Antiquity did not pre-date the third century, barring such exceptional cases as the three Jewish rebellions against Rome (66–70, 115–17 and 132–35). By comparison with the cataclysmic, if intermittent, physical violence since 249–51 (the rule of Decius), which is often believed to have arisen in part from religious motivations, earlier incidents of violence against dissident religious groups seem to pale into insignificance. A causal link has therefore been established between the rise of religious violence and the emergence in later Antiquity of increasingly discordant and monothetic religious world views, Christian monotheism being one salient representative.1
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- Religious Violence in the Ancient WorldFrom Classical Athens to Late Antiquity, pp. 133 - 176Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020