The Jews in Rome: 1536-1551 (Studia Post-Biblica)

The Jews in Rome: 1536-1551 (Studia Post-Biblica)

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Book Description
This volume recreates through a register and apt citation the first thousand acts of an archive known informally as the `Notai ebrei', a collection of as many as 10,000 such acts drawn by Roman rabbis between 1536 and 1640. The acts in this volume cover the twenty years prior to the establishment of the Roman ghetto by Paul IV in 1555. A lengthy introduction reveals these acts as a mirror of Jewish social and cultural life, including such matters as litigations, broken engagements, adoption, synagogal disputes, as well as rentals contracts, and apprenticeships. Most noteworthy is the ownership of property by women. This encouraged and reflected the treatment of both men and women as individuals. Indeed, individualism, which also promoted the amalgamation and ethnic levelling of a society that after about 1500 was notably one of immigrants, was this society's most salient characteristic.

The Jews in Rome: 1536-1551 (Studia Post-Biblica),Kenneth R. Stow,Kenneth Stow,Brill Academic Publishers,9004104631,16th century,Abstracts,Bibliographies & Indexes,Ethnic relations,History,History Of Individual Cities,History Of Jews,History: World,Interior Design - General,Italy,Jews,Judaism - General,Reference,Rome,Rome (Italy),Sources

Book Contents:

1. The Karaite Tradition of Arabic Bible Translation: A Linguistic and Exegetical Study of Karaite Translations of the Pentateuch from the Tenth and Eleventh ... C.E. (Etudes Sur Le Judaisme Medieval)
2. The Life of Leontios Patriarch of Jerusalem: Text, Translation, Commentary (The Medieval Mediterranean : Peoples, Economies and Cultures, 400-1453,)
3. The Making of a House
4. The Many Canons of Tibetan Buddhism: Piats 2000 : Tibetan Studies : Proceedings of the Ninth Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies, Leiden 2000 (Brill's Tibetan Studies Library)
5. The Perfect Torah (Brill Reference Library of Judaism)
6. The Peshitta As a Translation: Papers Read at the II Peshitta Symposium, Held at Leiden, 19-21 August 1993 (Monographs of the Peshitta Institute Lei)
7. The Resurgence of Religion: A Comparative Study of Selected Themes in Christian and Islamic Fundamentalist Discourses (Studies in the History of Religions)
8. The Stories of the Prophets: Qisas Al-Anbiya : An Eastern Turkish Version
9. The Temple Scroll and the Bible: The Methodology of 11Qt (Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah)
10. The Text of the Targum of Job: An Introduction and Critical Edition (Arbeiten Zur Geschichte Des Antiken Judentums Und Des Urchristentums, Vol 20)

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