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Politics and Religion in Late Antiquity, Part I: Geopolitics, Empire, and Rabbinic Judaism
Published 4 years, 2 months ago
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At the end of the the third century, the podcast dives back into the realm where politics meets religion. In Part I, we discuss the geopolitical balance of the Roman and Sassanian states, the position of the Jews in late antiquity, and the basics of the future of Jewry, a new form of Jewish life and religion known as Rabbinic Judaism.