Class and Power in Roman Palestine: The Socioeconomic Setting of Judaism and Christian Origins

摘要: Anthony Keddie investigates the changing dynamics of class and power at a critical place time in history Judaism Christianity - Palestine during its earliest phases incorporation into Roman Empire (63 BCE–70 CE). He identifies institutions pertaining to civic administration, taxation, agricultural tenancy, Jerusalem Temple as sources an unequal distribution economic, political, ideological power. Through careful analysis wide range literary, documentary, epigraphic, archaeological evidence, including most recent discoveries, complicates conventional understandings relations either antagonistic or harmonious. demonstrates how elites facilitated institutional changes that repositioned non-elites within new, sometimes more precarious, with privileged classes, but did not typically worsen their economic conditions. These socioeconomic shifts did, however, instigate dispositions. Judaean increasingly distinguished themselves from other, through material culture such tableware, clothing, tombs.