- Ancient Jewish History in the Second Temple, Rabbinical literature (The Mishnah, Babylonian and Palestinian Talmudim, aggadic midrashim), Jews In the Roman and Byzantine Empire, Judaism and paganism in the Roman Empire, Late Roman Paganism, Late Roman polytheism, and 3 moreJews in the Roman law, Social and Religious History of the Jews in the Roman era, and Paganism through rabbinic literatureedit
- Professor Friedheim is an expert of the relationships between the Jewish Rabbinic movement and the Greco-Roman cultur... moreProfessor Friedheim is an expert of the relationships between the Jewish Rabbinic movement and the Greco-Roman cultures in Late Roman Palestine. His main researches focus on the rabbinic knowledge concerning the gentile world, and on the composition of the Jewish society and the rabbinic positions towards assimilation and cultural and ritual influences on the Jews.edit
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Research Interests: Roman Religion, Ancient Greek Religion, Roman Palestine (Archaeology), Hebrew Bible and Ancient Near East, Ancient Jewish History, and 5 moreRoman Palestine, Talmudic literature, Ancient History, Relations Between Greece and the Near East in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods, Ancient Jewish magic, and Talmudic Archaeology
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Research Interests: Ancient Jewish History, Second Temple Period, Jewish Art History, Roman Judea, Jewish History, Early Rabbinic Literature, Rabbinic Judaism, and 3 moreRoman Judaea, Rabbinical literature (The Mishnah, Babylonian and Palestinian Talmudim, aggadic midrashim), and Second Temple Judaism and Early Christianity
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The role of the Jewish priesthood and the Bar-Kohba revolt
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The venality of priesthoods is a well-established phenomenon from the Hellenistic and Roman periods, essentially in Asia Minor. This custom, generally condemned by the Romans, was in use mainly in the cities in order to bail out the local... more
The venality of priesthoods is a well-established phenomenon from the Hellenistic and Roman periods, essentially in Asia Minor. This custom, generally condemned by the Romans, was in use mainly in the cities in order to bail out the local treasury. Talmudic sources testify to the existence of this phenomenon in Palestine during the great crisis of the 3rd century CE, when serious economic and financial difficulties probably encouraged Jews to serve as priests in pagan temples, and the cities to sell priesthoods in an attempt to alleviate the financial and economic situation
Research Interests: Roman History, Hellenistic Roman and Byzantine Archaeology in the Land of Israel, Ancient Jewish History, Archaeology of Roman Religion, Talmud Midrash Genizah Judaism Rabbinic-Literature Conversion Gender Haggadah, and 3 moreRabbinic Judaism, Histoire et archéologie des religions antiques, and Graeco-Roman Religion
Gad - Rabbis and pagan influences on Jewish onomastics
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The article deals with the historical meaning of the absence of the Library of Alexandria from the Philo's writings
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Research Interests: Jewish Studies, Roman Religion, Hellenistic Roman and Byzantine Archaeology in the Land of Israel, Histoire de l'art, Late Hellenistic Intellectual History, and 9 moreRabbinic Judaism, Rabbinical literature (The Mishnah, Babylonian and Palestinian Talmudim, aggadic midrashim), Histoire de l'art et archéologie de l'Antiquité grecque et romaine, Late Roman Paganism, Histoire et archéologie des religions antiques, Roman Archaeology, Archéologie Du Judaïsme, Graeco-Roman Religion, and Histoire Du Judaïsme
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One of the fascinating questions in the study of Jewish society in Roman Palestine after the Great revolt against Rome concerns the standing of the rabbis in the Jewish people. To what extent was the community subject to the authority of... more
One of the fascinating questions in the study of Jewish society in Roman Palestine after the Great revolt against Rome concerns the standing of the rabbis in the Jewish people. To what extent was the community subject to the authority of the Sages of the Mishnah and Talmud and their literature? Jewish society was never uniform, and although we do not possess orderly documents relating to those sectors that did not consider themselves subservient to the rabbis, these were undoubtedly important, as we learn from the trenchant theological and halakhic debates about them conducted by the Sages of the Mishnah and Talmud and archaeological finds as for instance the appearance of Sol Invictus on the mosaics of Galilean synagogues. On the other hand, the archaeological discoveries, like the discovery of many ritual baths which correspond to the halakhic outlook of the rabbis concerning the purity laws, could just easily have convinced us to reach the opposite conclusions. the overall picture, therefore, seems to be ambivalent, and we must make every effort to avoid rash and sweeping conclusions concerning the relationship between the rabbis and their literature and the general Jewish society in late Roman Palestine
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(Les judéens des synagogues, les chrétiens et les rabbins), Actes du colloque de Lausanne, 12-14 décembre 2012, Brepols Publishers, Turnhout 2015, pp. 73-116.
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Research Interests: Ancient History, Jewish History, Jewish Identity, German-Jewish Studies, Histoire de la pensée antique ; philosophie archaïque et réception classique ; religions grecques et romaines, syncrétismes de l’Antiquité tardive, and 2 moreJewish identity in late antiquity, Rabbinic conversion and Histoire De La Phénicie Hellénistique Et Romaine
This study deals essentially with the knowledge of the Palestinian Rabbis concerning paganism in the days of Mishna and Talmud. The Late Professor Saul Lieberman wrote that “Many isolated items on idolatry and idol worshippers are... more
This study deals essentially with the knowledge of the Palestinian Rabbis concerning paganism in the days of Mishna and Talmud. The Late Professor Saul Lieberman wrote that “Many isolated items on idolatry and idol worshippers are scattered all over rabbinic literature. It would require a large volume to treat this topic”. This valuable and exhaustive study proves methodically that the Rabbis had deeper knowledge about Syrian, Arabian, Anatolian and Graeco-Roman Pagan cults than is commonly believed. Clear, accessible and displaying considerable scholarship this work will undoubtedly provide an important challenge to both historians, archaeologists, and scholars of Rabbinic texts.
Research Interests: Ancient History, Roman History, Jewish Studies, Jewish History, Hellenistic Roman and Byzantine Archaeology in the Land of Israel, and 11 moreAncient Jewish History, Archaeology of Roman Religion, Religions of the Roman Empire, Idolatry, Talmudic literature, Talmudic Law, Hellenistic and Roman Syria, Histoire de l'art et archéologie de l'Antiquité grecque et romaine, Late Roman Paganism, Roman Archaeology, and Histoire Romaine
Harvard Theological Review, 96/2 (2003), pp. 239-250
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JUDAICA, Beiträge zum Verstehen des Judentums, 64/2-3 (2008), pp. 118-135.
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Research Interests: Rabbinics, Roman Empire, Sassanian Persia, Ancient Jewish History, Parthian Empire, and 2 moreResearch Interests: Rabbinical Literature (The Mishnah, Babylonian and Palestinian Talmudim, Aggadic Midrashim), Midrash, Redactional Criticism of Rabbinic Literature, Literary Criticism, Rabbinic Literature, and Rabbinics and Ancient Jewish History in the Second Temple
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Review of Zeev Weiss, Public Spectacles in Roman and Late Antique Palestine, Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA - London 2014
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In 2015, Polis—The Jerusalem Institute of Languages and Humanities held an international conference on Hellenistic Egypt's most famous center of scholarship and learning. The interdisciplinary event gathered historians, archaeologists,... more
In 2015, Polis—The Jerusalem Institute of Languages and Humanities held an international conference on Hellenistic Egypt's most famous center of scholarship and learning. The interdisciplinary event gathered historians, archaeologists, and linguists, as well as specialists on the Septuagint and on Greek literature to discuss related subjects from a wide array of perspectives and to answer some of the most burning questions related to the rise and fall of this iconic institution. Created and developed by the Ptolemaic kings, the Library of Alexandria was regarded as the world's main center of scholarship from the 3 rd century BC until at least the reign of Cleopatra (48–30 BC). The dream to establish a gigantic library that could assemble all known texts of the Hellenistic period, the outstanding achievements of the scholars who have worked inside its walls, and, finally, the mysteries surrounding its disappearance, have bestowed an almost mythic status on this monumental library. Where was the Royal Library located exactly, and what kind of texts were kept there? To what extent did the Library of Alexandria become a meeting point for different languages and cultures? Should we distinguish between the Museum and the Library from an institutional point of view? Were the book collections housed in separate buildings? What caused the destruction of those collections and how much was lost? Why do some ancient authors remain silent about the Library's disappearance? The book comprises eleven articles written by the scholars who participated in the conference, as well as transcripts of the discussions that followed their presentations, an index locorum of all ancient source texts quoted in the book, an extensive bibliography, and an introduction by editor Christophe Rico, outlining the overall contents and highlighting their interrelation.
Research Interests: History, Ancient History, Cultural History, Greek Literature, Latin Literature, and 14 moreArt History, Late Antique and Byzantine Studies, Literature, Byzantine Studies, Septuagint, Late Antiquity, Islamic History, Reception of Antiquity, Antiquity, Historia, Literatura, Antioxidants, Patristics and Late Antiquity, and History of Judaism In Antiquity
Rendre compte brièvement du livre de Thierry Murcia n'est pas chose aisée. Cette difficulté provient essentiellement de l'ampleur de l'étude en question, 810 pages, sur un sujet qui reste, somme toute, assez pointu et restreint, à savoir... more
Rendre compte brièvement du livre de Thierry Murcia n'est pas chose aisée. Cette difficulté provient essentiellement de l'ampleur de l'étude en question, 810 pages, sur un sujet qui reste, somme toute, assez pointu et restreint, à savoir la perception du personnage de Jésus apparaissant à plusieurs reprises dans la littérature rabbinique ancienne. En outre, la pléthore de travaux publiés sur le sujet depuis plus d'un siècle aurait de quoi dissuader les chercheurs de s'investir en la matière, car comment innover sur une question tant ressassée ? Mais voilà, l'auteur a non seulement le mérite de présenter exhaustivement l'historiographie de chaque question qu'il traite, mais il parvient également à entrevoir de nouvelles pistes de recherche, lesquelles s'imposent au fur et à mesure de la lecture de l'ouvrage. En outre, au risque de dérouter certains, avec la présentation systématique des thèses des uns et des antithèses des autres, l'auteur ne se laisse pas aller à une présentation dédaléenne des sujets abordés. C'est avec succès qu'il parvient, au contraire, à présenter clairement des thèses complexes et controversées. Un certain nombre de chapitres du livre constitue des reprises d'articles déjà publiés par des revues universitaires de renom, dont certains d'entre eux furent – pour les besoins du livre – remaniés ou assortis de passages inédits. Tout ceci permet à l'auteur de présenter au monde de la recherche historique sur le judaïsme ancien et les origines du christianisme une impressionnante dissertation, réalisée dans le cadre du laboratoire de recherche du centre Paul-Albert Février (MMSH, Aix-en-Provence), alliant érudition, compilation des travaux antérieurs et innovation. En bref, ce que l'on attend de toute recherche historique digne de ce nom.