The Jews in Late Ancient Rome
Evidence of Cultural Interaction in the Roman Diaspora
Biographical note
Leonard Victor Rutgers, Ph.D. (1993) in Philosophy, Duke University, is Research Fellow of the Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences at the University of Utrecht. Among his numerous publications are The Hidden Heritage of Diaspora Judaism (1998) and Subterranean Rome. In Search of the Roots of Christianity in the Catacombs of the Eternal City (2000).
Readership
All those of graduate level and above interested in Jewish and Early Christian archaeology, Jewish history, the history of Late Antiquity, Church historians, epigraphers, and Roman legal historians.
Reviews
Winner of the 1996 Keetje Hodshon Prize, awarded by the Dutch Society of Sciences.
From reviews of the hardcover edition:
'It is truly a tour de force...Rutgers deserves the highest praise for his comprehensiveness, thoroughness, and accuracy in examining the epigraphic evidence. His work marks a tremendous advance over that of Leon.'
Louis H. Feldman, The Jewish Quarterly Review, 1996.
'A richly complex and fascinating book.'
Nicholas de Lange, Bulletin of Judaeo-Greek Studies, 1996.
From reviews of the hardcover edition:
'It is truly a tour de force...Rutgers deserves the highest praise for his comprehensiveness, thoroughness, and accuracy in examining the epigraphic evidence. His work marks a tremendous advance over that of Leon.'
Louis H. Feldman, The Jewish Quarterly Review, 1996.
'A richly complex and fascinating book.'
Nicholas de Lange, Bulletin of Judaeo-Greek Studies, 1996.
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