The Problem of the Theater in Early Judaism

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" The Problem of the Theater in Early Judaism "
Jeff Jay

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1075229
Doc. No	:	LA118858
Call No	:	‭10.1163/15700631-12340373‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Jeff Jay
Title & Author	:	The Problem of the Theater in Early Judaism [Article]\ Jeff Jay
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Journal for the Study of Judaism
Date	:	2013
Volume/ Issue Number	:	44/2
Page No	:	218–253
Abstract	:	Some scholars have characterized Jewish participation in Roman theatrical institutions as a departure from normative Judaism, while others have distinguished Jews in the diaspora, who attend the theaters, from Jews in Palestine, who criticize and reject them. Both of these narratives are inadequate because scholars have failed to analyze the sources in terms of the cultural and discursive dynamics of Roman theater-going in general. Critiques and accommodations of the theater are common among Jews who lived in both the diaspora and Palestine, for the nature of theatrical culture itself provided Jews with opportunities for vigorous dialogical give-and-take under a Roman imperium in which theaters and their shows were of utmost political and social importance. Some scholars have characterized Jewish participation in Roman theatrical institutions as a departure from normative Judaism, while others have distinguished Jews in the diaspora, who attend the theaters, from Jews in Palestine, who criticize and reject them. Both of these narratives are inadequate because scholars have failed to analyze the sources in terms of the cultural and discursive dynamics of Roman theater-going in general. Critiques and accommodations of the theater are common among Jews who lived in both the diaspora and Palestine, for the nature of theatrical culture itself provided Jews with opportunities for vigorous dialogical give-and-take under a Roman imperium in which theaters and their shows were of utmost political and social importance.
Descriptor	:	Alexandria
Descriptor	:	diaspora
Descriptor	:	euergetism
Descriptor	:	Herod
Descriptor	:	Josephus
Descriptor	:	Palestine
Descriptor	:	Philo
Descriptor	:	Roman empire
Descriptor	:	spectacle
Descriptor	:	theater
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/15700631-12340373‬