Legal engagement
The reception of Roman law and tribunals by Jews and other inhabitants of the Empire
The Roman empire set law at the center of its very identity. A complex and robust ideology of law and justice is evident not only in the dynamics of imperial administration, but a host of cultural arenas. Citizenship named the privilege of falling under Roman jurisdiction, legal expertise was cultural capital. A faith in the emperor’s intimate concern for justice was a key component of the voluntary connection binding Romans and provincials to the state.
Even as law was a central mechanism fo...
Éditeur : Publications de l’École française de Rome
Lieu d’édition : Rome
Publication sur OpenEdition Books : 30 juillet 2021
ISBN numérique : 978-2-7283-1465-2
DOI : 10.4000/books.efr.9308
Collection : Collection de l'École française de Rome | 579
Année d’édition : 2021
ISBN (Édition imprimée) : 978-2-7283-1464-5
Nombre de pages : 544
Katell Berthelot, Natalie B. Dohrmann et Capucine Nemo-Pekelman
IntroductionRoman Law, provincials and barbarians
Carlos Lévy
Cicero, law, and the barbariansJulien Dubouloz
Accommodating former legal systems and Roman lawCicero’s rhetorical and legal perspective in the Verrine orations
Clifford Ando
Performing justice in republican empire, 1-565 CEImperial justice as drama
Kaius Tuori
Between the good king and the cruel tyrantThe Acta Isidori and the perception of Roman emperors among provincial litigants
Hayim Lapin
Pappus and Julianus, the Maccabaean martyrs, and rabbinic martyrdom history in Late AntiquityProvincial negotiation with the imperial legal system
Aitor Blanco-Pérez
Appealing for the emperor’s justiceProvincial petitions and imperial responses prior to Late Antiquity
Capucine Nemo-Pekelman
Jewish judicial patrons and advocates in the Western Roman Empire (5th century)Legal pluralism under empire
Marie Roux
Judicial pluralism in the Visigothic kingdom of ToulouseSpecial jurisdictions and communal courts
Kimberley Czajkowski
Legal knowledge and its transmission in three marriage contracts from the Judaean desertThe impact of imperial law on rabbinic legal thinking
Catherine Hezser
Did Palestinian rabbis know Roman law?Methodological considerations and case studies
Orit Malka et Yakir Paz
A rabbinic postliminiumThe property of captives in tannaitic halakhah in light of Roman Law
Yael Wilfand
“A proselyte whose sons converted with him”Roman laws on new citizens’ authority over their children and tannaitic rulings on converts to Judaism and their offspring
Natalie B. Dohrmann
Ad similitudinem arbitrorumOn the perils of commensurability and comparison in Roman and rabbinic law
Law and self-perception
Katell Berthelot
“Not like our Rock is their rock” (Deut 32:31)Rabbinic perceptions of Roman courts and jurisdiction
Kimberley Fowler
Early Christian perspectives on Roman law and Mosaic law
The Roman empire set law at the center of its very identity. A complex and robust ideology of law and justice is evident not only in the dynamics of imperial administration, but a host of cultural arenas. Citizenship named the privilege of falling under Roman jurisdiction, legal expertise was cultural capital. A faith in the emperor’s intimate concern for justice was a key component of the voluntary connection binding Romans and provincials to the state.
Even as law was a central mechanism for control and the administration of state violence, it also exerted a magnetic effect on the peoples under its control. Adopting a range of approaches, the essays explore the impact of Roman law, both in the tribunal and in the culture. Unique to this anthology is attention to legal professionals and cultural intermediaries operating at the empire’s periphery. The studies here allow one to see how law operated among a range of populations and provincials—from Gauls and Brittons to Egyptians and Jews—exploring the ways local peoples creatively navigated, and constructed, their legal realities between Roman and local mores. They draw our attention to the space between laws and legal ideas, between ethnic, especially Jewish, life and law and the structures of Roman might; cases in which shared concepts result in diverse ends; the pageantry of the legal tribunal, the imperatives and corruptions of power differentials; and the importance of reading the gaps between depiction of law and its actual workings.
This volume is unusual in bringing Jewish, and especially rabbinic, sources and perspectives together with Roman, Greek or Christian ones. This is the result of its being part of the research program “Judaism and Rome” (ERC Grant Agreement no. 614 424), dedicated to the study of the impact of the Roman empire upon ancient Judaism.
Katell Berthelot is a CNRS Professor working on the history of Jews and Judaism in the Greco-Roman world, and a member of the TDMAM research center at Aix-Marseille University (UMR 7297). In 2014-2019 she was the Principal Investigator of the ERC “Judaism and Rome”.
Natalie B. Dohrmann of the University of Pennsylvania researches rabbinic culture in the context of the Roman Near East, especially on the relationship between Roman law and the emergence of rabbinic Judaism.
Capucine Nemo-Pekelman is Assistant Professor at the University of Paris-Nanterre, in the Faculty of Law. She is a Legal Historian specialized in Roman Law and the legal status of the Jews in Late Antiquity.
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