The Jews in Late Ancient Rome focusses on the Jewish community in third and fourth century
Rome, and in particular on how this community related to the larger non-Jewish world that …

In recent scholarly debates concerning the history of the Jews in Roman times, the study of
the Diaspora has begun to play an increasingly important part. New archaeological and …

This study reports on the first attempt that determines the diet of a small but conceivably
representative section of Rome's early Christian community by means of δ 13 C and δ 15 N …

In the first century, Jews were expelled from Rome on various occasions. Ancient literary
sources offer contradictory information on these expulsions. As a result, scholars have offered …

In the recent past, scholars have argued that the Jewish community in Imperial Rome was
affected far more by rabbinic Judaism as it developed in Palestine than by contemporary …

We report genome-wide data from 33 Ashkenazi Jews (AJ), dated to the 14 th century, obtained
following a salvage excavation at the medieval Jewish cemetery of Erfurt, Germany. The …

This paper reports on the first chronological assessment of the Jewish Catacombs of the
ancient Rome performed by accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) dating of small-size charcoal …

In this volume a number of scholars from Israel, the USA, and England have joined forces with
the well-known Utrecht University Research Unit" The Cultural Milieu of Early Christianity" …

With the exception of Rome, where several Jewish catacombs and a collection of some 600
Jewish funerary inscriptions have come to light, the archaeological and epigraphical …

One of the salient characteristics of late antique urbanism is that synagogues began dotting
the urban landscape. This phenomenon was not limited to the land of Israel, where such a …