Military Service and the Integration of Jews Into the Roman Empire

by Raúl González Salinero

According to Ra?l Gonz?lez Salinero, the plurality of religious expressions within Judaism prior to the predominance of the rabbinical current disproves the assumption according to which some Jewish customs and precepts (especially the Sabbath) prevented Jews from joining the Roman army without renouncing their ancestral culture. The military exemption occasionally granted to the Jews by the Roman authorities was compatible with their voluntary enlistment...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004506756
• ISBN13: 9789004506756
• Release Date: February 2022
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 236 Pages