RT Article
T1 Wayward Jews, God-fearing Gentiles, or Curious Pagans?: Jewish Normativity and the Sambathions
JF Journal for the study of Judaism in the Persian, Hellenistic, and Roman period
VO 48
IS 2
SP 277
OP 297
A1 Cornthwaite, Christopher J.
LA English
YR 2017
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1562122231
AB One of the most influential collections of Jewish material evidence in the last century, Corpus Papyrorum Judaicarum, includes Victor Tcherikover’s well-known work on the Sambathions, based on the common appearance of proper names, groups, and deities with similar, Sambath- roots. At stake was whether these people were Jews and the ways in which diaspora Jews and their host communities influenced one another. This historiographical study draws upon the recent category shift from Jewish to Judaean to argue that Tcherikover focuses on religious observance to test whether people with unknown origins are Jews. By doing so, he rejects that many of the Sambathions are Jews and shifts the evaluation of questionable behavior towards gentiles and God-fearers, thus inadvertently using gentiles to create and/or reinforce Jewish normativity.
K1 Synagoge
K1 Frühjudentum
K1 Heidentum
K1 Normativität
K1 Ethnizität
K1 Religion
K1 Handschrift
K1 Epigraphik
K1 Categories : religion : ethnicity : Tcherikover : Judaeans : papyri : inscriptions : onomastics
DO 10.1163/15700631-12340145