TY  - BOOK
AU  - Van Maaren,John
TI  - The Boundaries of Jewishness in the Southern Levant 200 BCE–132 CE: Power, Strategies, and Ethnic Configurations 
T2  - Studia Judaica : Forschungen zur Wissenschaft des Judentums ,
SN  - 9783110787382
AV  - DS135.L4 V36 2022
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Berlin, Boston : 
PB  - De Gruyter, 
KW  - Jews
KW  - Identity
KW  - History
KW  - Middle East
KW  - Antiochos IV
KW  - Hasmonäer
KW  - Herodes I
KW  - Historische Soziologie
KW  - RELIGION / Judaism / History
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Antiochus IV
KW  - Hasmoneans
KW  - Herod the Great
KW  - Historical Sociology
N1  - Frontmatter --; Preface --; Contents --; Figures and Tables --; Abbreviations --; 1 Introduction and Methodology --; 2 Jewishness under the Seleucids (200–129 BCE) --; 3 Jewishness under the Hasmoneans (129–63 BCE) --; 4 Jewishness under the Romans (63 BCE–132 CE) --; 5 Conclusion --; 6 Appendix 1 --; Bibliography --; Index of subjects --; Index of ancient sources --; Index of modern authors; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110787450
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110787450
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110787450/original
ER  -