Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Sudilovsky, Judith

Titel

An intriguing epitaph

Ist Teil von

• The Jerusalem report, 2021-07, p.44

Ort / Verlag

Jerusalem: Jerusalem Report

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

Quelle

Nexis Uni (LexisNexis)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Price mentioned that this epitaph, which has been known since 1761 and centuries later in 1996 rediscovered in the basement of the National Archaeological Museum of Naples, was of particular importance not only because it is the first archaeological corroboration that Jewish slaves had been taken to Rome after the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE, but it also revealed a very unlikely love story between a Roman freeman and his former slave. In this imagined coming of age story young Esther, daughter of Temple priest Hanan, must grapple not only with her own internal dilemmas as she faces an unwanted arranged marriage while pining for the fictionalized character of the real-life Josephus Flavius - the controversial Jewish general turned historian - but also with complex family dynamics and the violent unrest in Jerusalem just prior to the doomed revolt. [...]that the first century was perhaps one of the most fascinating and momentous eras not only in Jewish history but in all of human history because it was the period when Judaism changed from a temple-based religion to a community, prayer-based religion and also is the time when Christianity developed. The book has been nominated for a 2021 "Christy Award" given by the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association, and is also listed on the Jewish Book Council website.