Friends, Romans, Rabbis? https://mosaicmagazine.com/picks/uncategorized/2013/08/friends-romans-rabbis/

August 19, 2013 | Ishay Rosen-Zvi
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The rabbis of Roman Palestine constituted a movement in opposition to Rome and Roman culture; but was their own culture, in some sense, Roman as well?

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