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30 avril 2020
- doi: 10.4000/books.efr.5181
- isbn: 9782728314089
- eisbn: 9782728314119
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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Mishnah Tosefta Second Sophistic magical papyri Egypt Justin Martyr resistance culture romanization Josephus rabbis Judaea Greeks Demotic priests Roman power Rome pouvoir History HIS010000 HBJDSujets proches
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Seth Schwartz, « The Mishnah and the limits of Roman power », Publications de l’École française de Rome, ID : 10.4000/books.efr.5181
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The Mishnah (c. 200 CE) is without precedent in Jewish literature and without parallel in its historical context. It constitutes a very strong and elaborated form of cultural resistance to Roman rule, however "romanised" the environment in which the work took shape may have been, and however much the text itself is legible as an artifact of the High Imperial East. It is helpful to bring the Mishnah into dialogue with several other textual corpora often described as resistant: the Second Sophistic, early patristic literature, and the long Greek and Demotic papyri probably assembled by High Imperial Theban priests. The texts turn out to have a great deal in common but in some ways the most significant and consequential thing that they share is indication that their authors all exercised a surprising degree of cultural autonomy, though the Mishnah most of all. We are thus warned about the limits of Roman power: with or without state support or approval, in some places local high traditions not simply persisted but developed, in settings otherwise pervaded by Rome’s presence.