Table des matières

Acknowledgments

Katell Berthelot, Natalie B. Dohrmann et Capucine Nemo-Pekelman

Introduction

Roman Law, provincials and barbarians

Carlos Lévy

Cicero, law, and the barbarians

• An orator facing civilizational problems
• The creation of civilization in De inventione
• Cicero versus Lucretius: human origins and the barbarians
• Who are barbarians? The characteristics of barbarians according to Cicero
• Pro Sestio: Barbarism in the city
• Towards a philosophical theorization
• The philosophical answer in De re publica and De legibus: Barbarians and universal law
• Universal law, Roman law, and barbarians
• Conclusion

Julien Dubouloz

Accommodating former legal systems and Roman law

Cicero’s rhetorical and legal perspective in the Verrine orations

• Lex Rupilia and Lex Hieronica: Roman statutes and rhetorical constructs
• Verres’s uadimonium edict: Roman versus Sicilian law?
• Omnia iura Siculorum, quae habent a senatu populoque Romano: actual process of unification, or rhetorical device?
• Greek dispositions as a model for Roman tax law?

Clifford Ando

Performing justice in republican empire, 1-565 CE

Imperial justice as drama

Ari Z. Bryen

A frenzy of sovereignty

Punishment in P.Aktenbuch

• Introduction
• Punishment and dialogue
• Can the provincial speak?
• The mute councilor
• Coda: thinking about tribunals, imperially and provincially

Kaius Tuori

Between the good king and the cruel tyrant

The Acta Isidori and the perception of Roman emperors among provincial litigants

• Introduction
• Acta Isidori
• BGU II 511
• P.Lond.Inv. 2785
• P.Berol. 8877
• P.Cairo 10448
• P.Oxy. XLII 3021
• P. Gissen 46
• Good kings and cruel tyrants in the kingship literature
• Audience and narratives
• Conclusion

Hayim Lapin

Pappus and Julianus, the Maccabaean martyrs, and rabbinic martyrdom history in Late Antiquity

• Pappus and Julianus
• Maccabaean martyrs
• Martyrdom and judicial violence?
• Conclusion

Provincial negotiation with the imperial legal system

Aitor Blanco-Pérez

Appealing for the emperor’s justice

Provincial petitions and imperial responses prior to Late Antiquity

• Traveling petitions
• The emperor’s presence and delivery of justice
• The emperor’s justice: an influence on provincial perspectives?

Julien Fournier

Representing the rights of a city

Ekdikoi in Roman courts

• Ekdikoi in late Hellenistic arbitrations
• The “traditional” ekdikia from the 1^st century BCE to the beginning of the 2^nd century CE
• Changes in function under the Principate
• Conclusion: attempt at a diachronic perspective

Capucine Nemo-Pekelman

Jewish judicial patrons and advocates in the Western Roman Empire (5^th century)

• The Jewish judicial patrons
• The Jewish advocates
• Conclusion
• Appendix

Legal pluralism under empire

Soazick Kerneis

Legal pluralism in the Western Roman Empire

Popular legal sources and legal history

• Two unusual legal forms from the Western provinces
• Matrimonial customs in Roman Gaul
• Law and magic
• Legal pluralism in the Late empire
• The first application of the ordeal
• Exceptions in the code

Marie Roux

Judicial pluralism in the Visigothic kingdom of Toulouse

Special jurisdictions and communal courts

• Contraction and endurance of public jurisdictions
• Integration of the maiores in common law jurisdiction
• Endurance of militia members’ jurisdictional privileges
• Endurance of judgment by private authorities: private communal courts
• Audientia episcopalis
• Jewish courts
• Conclusion

Kimberley Czajkowski

Legal knowledge and its transmission in three marriage contracts from the Judaean desert

• The marriage contracts: a brief overview
• Language, legal knowledge and its transmission
• Conclusions: Legal knowledge, its transmission and the coming of Rome

Yair Furstenberg

Imperialism and the creation of local law

The case of rabbinic law

• New features of rabbinic legalism
• Creating civil law
• All-encompassing normative space
• Exclusivity of legal discourse
• Colonialism and indigenous law
• Legal pluralism under Rome
• Creation of rabbinic “customary law”
• a) New legal fields
• b) Codification of custom
• c) Court procedure
• Conclusion

The impact of imperial law on rabbinic legal thinking

Catherine Hezser

Did Palestinian rabbis know Roman law?

Methodological considerations and case studies

• Comparing rabbinic and Roman law
• The Graeco-Roman context of rabbinic legal discourse
• The relationship between rabbinic and Roman law
• Shipping law: the case of jettison
• Slave law: slaves as business intermediaries
• Family law: wives’ property ownership
• Conclusions

Orit Malka et Yakir Paz

A rabbinic postliminium

The property of captives in tannaitic halakhah in light of Roman Law

• Introduction
• Captives of a kingdom and captives of banditry
• Captivus captus
• Two strata in the Tosefta
• Captivity and its legal consequences according to Roman law
• A rabbinic postliminium
• Conclusion
• Appendix

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

• Tannaitic laws on the relationship between proselytes and their families
• Reading this law into the Torah
• Additional tannaitic examples
• Understanding this tannaitic legislation
• Roman laws on new citizens
• Some general observations

Natalie B. Dohrmann

Ad similitudinem arbitrorum

On the perils of commensurability and comparison in Roman and rabbinic law

• Introduction: legal geography
• Arbitration: Jacob and Esau
• Seius and Plony: false friends

Law and self-perception

Katell Berthelot

“Not like our Rock is their rock” (Deut 32:31)

Rabbinic perceptions of Roman courts and jurisdiction

• Introduction
• The prohibition of non-Jewish tribunals
• Association of non-Jewish courts with idolatry and impiety
• Legal documents and conflict of authority
• The connection between the courts of the nations and idolatry
• The association of Jewish or rabbinic jurisdiction with the Jerusalem Temple and with God himself
• Conclusion

Ron Naiweld

The rabbinic model of sovereignty in biblical and imperial contexts

• The biblical context
• The imperial context

Kimberley Fowler

Early Christian perspectives on Roman law and Mosaic law

• Introduction
• Roman law as a tool within the Jewish-Christian debate
• The compatibility and hierarchical relationship between Christian “law” and Roman law
• Conclusion

Christine Hayes

“Barbarians” judge the law

The rabbis on the uncivil law of Rome

• Part I - Law, the barbarian repertoire, and intercultural polemics
• Intercultural polemics: apologetics and redirection – Romans, the Second Sophistic, Christians
• a) Romans
• b) Writers of the Second Sophistic
• c) Christians
• Part II - Second Temple Jewish use of the barbarian repertoire
• Part III - The barbarian repertoire in Palestinian rabbinic sources
• Rabbinic apologetics I: barbarizing the stubborn and rebellious son
• Rabbinic apologetics II: a pleasant death – Roman and rabbinic death penalty discourses
• a) Roman death penalty law: degrees of severity and the aesthetics of execution
• b) Excising the Torah’s inner barbarian
• Rabbinic redirection
• a) Esau the barbarian
• b) Barbarized emperors
• Conclusion