The Boundaries of Jewishness in the Southern Levant 200 Bce-132 CE: Power, Strategies, and Ethnic Configurations

by John Van Maaren

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3110787385
• ISBN13: 9783110787382
• Release Date: June 2022
• Publisher: de Gruyter
• Length: 334 Pages
• Weight: 1.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"