rdf-syntax-grammar
mods:
  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: boundaries of Jewishness in the southern Levant, 200 BCE-132 CE
    sub title: power, strategies, and ethnic configurations
  name:
    name part: Van Maaren, John
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2022
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xviii, 316 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: "Recent research has considered how changing imperial contexts influence conceptions of Jewishness among ruling elites (esp. Eckhardt, Ethnos und Herrschaft, 2013). This study integrates other, often marginal, conceptions with elite perspectives. It uses the ethnic boundary making model, an empirically based sociological model, to link macro-level characteristics of the social field with individual agency in ethnic construction. It uses a wide range of written sources as evidence for constructions of Jewishness and relates these to a local-specific understanding of demographic and institutional characteristics, informed by material culture. The result is a diachronic study of how institutional changes under Seleucid, Hasmonean, and Early Roman rule influenced the ways that members of the ruling elite, retainer class, and marginalized groups presented their preferred visions of Jewishness. These sometimes-competing visions advance different strategies to maintain, rework, or blur the boundaries between Jews and others. The study provides the next step toward a thick description of Jewishness in antiquity by introducing needed systematization for relating written sources from different social strata with their contexts."
  table of contents: 1. Introduction and methodology. The ethnic boundary making model : Preliminary remarks ; The ethnic boundary making model : making and Unmaking ethnic boundaries ; The ethnic boundary making model and Jewishness in antiquity -- 2. Jewishness under the Seleucids (200-129 BCE). Political boundaries of Seleucid Coele-Syria and Phoenicia ; Ethnic demographics in and around Seleucid Coele-Syria and Phoenicia ; Dynamics of change ; Literary sources as evidence for strategies of boundary making ; Ethnic configurations ; Conclusions : ethnic boundaries in Coele-Syria and Phoenicia under Seleucid rule -- 3. Jewishness under the Hasmoneans (129-63 BCE). Expanding Hasmonean political boundaries ; Ethnic demographic changes in and around Hasmonean territory ; Field characteristics : institutions, networks, power ; Dynamics of change ; Literary sources as evidence for strategies of boundary making ; Ethnic configurations ; Conclusions : ethnic boundaries under Hasmonean rule -- 4. Jewishness under the Romans (63 BCE-132 CE). Shifting political boundaries in and around Roman Judea ; Ethnic demographic changes in and around Roman Judea ; Field characteristics : institutions, networks, power ; Dynamics of change ; Literary sources as evidence for strategies of boundary making ; Ethnic configurations ; Conclusions : Jewishness under the Romans (63 BCE-132 CE) -- 5. Conclusion. Summary : Jewishness during the Seleucid, Hasmonean, and early Roman periods ; Implications. 6. Appendix 1.
  note: John Van Maaren.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
  subject:
    geographic code: aw-----
  subject:
    topic: Jews
    topic: Identity
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Jews
    geographic: Middle East
    topic: History
    temporal: To 1500
  subject:
    topic: Jews
  subject:
    topic: Sociology
  subject:
    geographic: Middle East
  classification: DS135.L4 V36 2022
  classification: 305.89240394
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Studia Judaica (Walter de Gruyter & Co.) ; Bd. 118
  identifier: 9783110787382
  identifier: 3110787385
  location:
    physical location: pda,print
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 220331
    record change date: 20250318214919.7
    record identifier: in00004588115
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng