UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies

This lecture, “Re-Staging the Judean ‘Nation’: The Rise of the Neighborhood in Roman Palestine” by Professor Charlotte Fonrobert (Stanford), is part of the CMRS-CEGS Research Seminar graduate course for Spring 2023, Persecution and Defiance: Religious Minorities in the Roman World 200-700 CE (History201B). Professor Fonrobert will focus on one particular ritual innovation that the rabbinic movement instituted in the context of the ancient norms circumscribing the Sabbath, an innovation that turned the Sabbath into a ritual of neighborhood and a tool of the ritualization of neighborhood. Drawing on one of the most well-known Judean/Jewish practices in the late ancient world –...