A Jew in the Roman bathhouse : cultural interaction in the ancient Mediterranean / Yaron Z. Eliav.

"This monograph argues that Roman bathhouses were laboratories in which Jews interacted with Graeco-Roman culture. It tells the story of the Jews who frequented them, documenting their pleasures, anxieties, and concerns, and reconstructing their thoughts, feelings, and beliefs about the activities t...

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Main Author: Eliav, Yaron Z. (Author)
Language:English
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2023]
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Physical Description:xv, 368 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Format: Book

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505 0 |a The miracle of water : the emergence of the baths as a cultural institution -- The textual bath: physical realities and perceptions at a provincial Roman (-Jewish) public bathhouse -- Earliest encounters : archaeology, scholarly debate, and the shifting grounds of interpretation -- A sinful place? Jewish (Rabbinic) laws of and feelings about the Roman bath -- Tsni'ut (Rabbinic modes of modesty) in the halls of promiscuity : mixed bathing and nudity in the public bathhouse -- The naked Rabbi and the beautiful goddess : engaging sculpture in the public bathhouse -- A social laboratory : status and hierarchy in the bathhouse -- A scary place : the perils of the bath and Jewish magic remedies. 
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