Table of Contents

List of figures; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Part I. Ethnicity and Identity in the Roman Empire: 1. From Rome to Constantinople Benjamin Isaac; 2. The imperial senate: center of a multinational empire Werner Eck; 3. Ethnic types and stereotypes in Ancient Latin idioms Daniela Dueck; 4. Keti, son of Masawalat: ethnicity and empire Brent D. Shaw; Part II. Ethnicity and Identity in the Roman Empire: 5. Roman reception of the Trojan war Margalit Finkelberg; 6. Claiming Roman origins: Greek cities and the Roman colonial pattern Cédric Brélaz; 7. Roman theologies in the cities of Italy and the provinces John Scheid; 8. The involvement of provincial cities in the administration of school teaching Ido Israelowich; 9. Many nations, one night? Historical aspects of the night in the Roman Empire Angelos Chaniotis; Part III. Ethnicity and Identity in the Roman Empire: the Case of the Jews: 10. Religious pluralism in the Roman Empire: did Judaism test the limits of Roman tolerance? Erich S. Gruen; 11. Rome's attitude to Jews and Judaea after the great rebellion – beyond raison d'état? Alexander Yakobson; 12. Between ethnos and populus: the boundaries of being a Jew Youval Rotman; 13. Local identities of synagogue communities in the Roman Empire Jonathan J. Price; 14. The good the bad and the middling: Roman emperors in Talmudic literature Yuval Shahar; 15. The severans and rabbi Judah ha-Nasi Aharon Oppenheimer; Part IV. Iudaea/Palaestina: 16. The Roman legionary base in Legio-Kefar 'Othnay' – the evidence from the small finds Yotam Tepper; 17. The camp of the legion X Fretensis and the emergence of Aelia capitolina Shlomit Weksler-Bdolah; Bibliography; Indexes.