Author: British Museum. Department of Coins and MedalsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coins, Greek
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum: Pontus, Paphlagonia, Bithynia, and the Kingdom of Bosporus
Author: British Museum. Department of Coins and MedalsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coins, Greek
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Catalogue of Greek Coins: Pontus, Paphlagonia, Bithynia, and the Kingdom of Bosporus
Author: Warwick William WrothPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
A catalogue of the greek coins in the British Museum
Author: Warwick William WrothPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum: Pontus, Paphlagonia, Bithynia, and the Kingdom of Bosporus (1889)
Author: British Museum. Department of Coins and MedalsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coins, Greek
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum
Author: Warwick William WrothPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coins, Greek
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
A Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum
Author: British museumPontus, Paphlagonia, Bithynia, and the Kingdom of Bosporus
Author: British Museum. Department of Coins and MedalsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coins, Greek
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Catalogue of Greek Coins
Author: Barclay Vincent HeadPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coins, Greek
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Catalogue of Greek Coins
Author: Warwick WrothThe Jewish Manumission Inscriptions of the Bosporus Kingdom
Author: Elizabeth Leigh GibsonPublisher: Mohr Siebeck
ISBN: 9783161470417
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
E. Leigh Gibson analyses a little-known group of Greek inscriptions that record the manumission of slaves in synagogues located on the hellenized north shore of the Black Sea in the first three centuries of the common era. Through a comparison of this corpus with manumission inscriptions from elsewhere in the Greco-Roman world and an analysis of Greco-Roman Judaism's own interaction with slavery, she assesses the degree to which the Black Sea Jewish community adopted classical traditions of manumissions. In so doing, she tests the often-repeated assumption that these Jewish communities developed idiosyncratic slave practices under the influence of biblical injunctions regarding Israelite ownership of slaves. More generally, she reconsiders the extent of Jewish isolation from or interaction with Greco-Roman culture.Against the backdrop of Greek manumission inscriptions, the Jewish manumissions of the Bosporan Kingdom are unremarkable; they follow the basic outlines of Greek manumission formulae. A review of Greco-Roman Jewish sources demonstrates that biblical precepts on slaveholding were not implemented, even if they were still admired. One element of the manumissions, the ongoing obligation required of the slaves, is somewhat enigmatic and possibly indicates that the Bosporan Jewish community indeed had distinctive manumission practices. These obligations have been commonly interpreted as requiring the slave to participate in the religious life of the community as a condition of his manumission and possibly his concurrent conversion. A close analysis of the clause reveals a more straightforward interpretation: the obligation was a kind of paramone clause, a common feature of Greek manumission inscriptions.E. Leigh Gibson demonstrates that the Jews of this region incorporated Greek manumission practices into their communal life. The execution of private legal contract with the community of Jews as witness in turn suggests that the wider Bosporan community extended respect and recognition to its local Jewish community.