Youval Rotman
Biographic Data
| ID | 329809 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Youval Rotman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Youval |
| FAMILY NAME | Rotman |
| SIGNATURE | ROTMAN Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tel Aviv University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0099-9398 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
To Fix Society And Nature
This article explores asceticism as a means for society to play an active role in maintaining the order of the universe. Asceticism has served in several contexts (notably, in the Jewish and Christian societies of the early Byzantine empire) as an instrument for repentance, collective atonement, and moral correction that was meant to bring natural calamities under control. In late antiquity, fasting and self-denial were not only spiritual discipl…
Comparative and Global Framing of Enslavement
Enslavement for Manumission
The article challenges current perspectives on slavery as 'unfreedom' and proposes to examine the enslaved within a socio-political dynamics of power relations. An analysis of four Byzantine documents from the eleventh century and the place they accorded to slaves and manumitted slaves reveals the way enslavement and manumission served together as a means to acquire socioeconomic independence and private authority by turning the enslaved persons …
Rome: An Empire of Many Nations
The center of gravity in Roman studies has shifted far from the upper echelons of government and administration in Rome or the Emperor's court to the provinces and the individual. The multi-disciplinary studies presented in this volume reflect the turn in Roman history to the identities of ethnic groups and even single individuals who lived in Rome's vast multinational empire. The purpose is less to discover another element in the Roman Empire's …
Religious Hatred and Byzantine Ideology before the Crusades
Religious hatred has a long and painful history. It was conceptualized, defined and employed in various ways and for various ends throughout history. The present article focuses on the religious hatred and the roles that it played in Byzantium. It proposes a comparative approach to analyze expressions of religious hatred in Byzantine texts. The article does not analyze religious hatred as the actual hatred that a Christian might feel for his Jewi…
Moral psychopathology and mental health
Following three turning points in the historical development of psychology this study examines how the relation between mental health and the state of illness is linked to the concept of "passions." The first was the birth of modern psychiatry in 18th century France. The second was the development of the field of inquiry in antiquity about the psuchē and its mental activities, and the third was the turn of early Christian thought about mind and s…
Slaveries of the First Millennium
In a world where princesses found themselves enslaved, kidnapped boys became army generals, and biblical Joseph was a role model, this book narrates the formation of the Middle Ages from the point of view of slavery, and outlines a new approach to enhance our understanding of modern forms of enslavement. Offering an analysis of recent scholarship and an array of sources, never before studied together, from distinct societies and cultures of the f…
The relational mind
The article examines the new psychological language that developed in late antiquity to formulate a personal relationship with the one God. This language used the Greek term for the soul, the psuchē (Latin anima), and defined it as the relational faculty of the human mind. The perception of the human mind as relational became instrumental to formulate the experience of conversion, that is, a mental and emotional process of self-transformation, ps…
The Paradox of Roman Eunuchism
Farewell to our Managing Editor, Dr Tal Goldfajn
Dr Goldfajn (DPhil, Oxford), an accomplished linguist and a specialist in translation, taught at Tel Aviv University and served as the Managing Editor of the Mediterranean Historical Review from 20
A lice R io . Slavery after Rome, 500–1100
Alice Rio’s long-awaited Slavery after Rome offers the first coherent analysis of the outcome of slavery in the early medieval West. It joins the author’s previous studies on law, personal statuses, and slavery in early medieval Latin Europe. Its title notwithstanding, the book is concerned with only some of the regions under the Roman Empire, and is first and foremost a study of Western Europe. The question of the outcome of slavery in the medie…
The Politics of an Apolitical Seminar
As a contribution to the second installment of the Common Knowledge symposium “In the Humanities Classroom,” this essay describes a four-hour meeting of an undergraduate seminar on historiography at Tel Aviv University. The students and instructor alike are enabled, by analyzing together the work of ancient and medieval historians, to examine their own positions vis-à-vis the discipline of history and to reflect on its political and rhetorical as…
Slavery in Greco-Roman Egypt
Introduction Anyone who has seen a spectacular movie set in Egypt, say, for example, The Ten Commandments starring Charlton Heston, will be forgiven for coming away with the impression that the land was full of slaves who spent all their time suffering while building pyramids and other massive structures. Herodotus (2.124), of course, reports a similar image of slave labor and pyramid building. So it is perhaps surprising to see in the preceding …
Phocylides, Pseudo‐(Jewish author)
The Sentences, an ethical moral code of conduct in the form of a gnomic poem, was written in didactic hexameters of 230 verses in Ionian dialect and cites as its author Phocylides of Miletos (middle of the sixth century BCE ). The text is, however, later than this and was written in a Hellenistic‐Jewish milieu which some scholars date to 30 BCE to 40 CE . Although it is normally defined as a Hellenistic gnomic text, its combination of references …
Proselytes and proselytism, Jewish
The Greek term proselytos , literally “the one who has arrived at a place,” appears in the Septuagint as a translation of the Hebrew biblical word ger : a foreigner who has come to dwell, referring also to foreigners who have come to dwell among the Israelites, accepting their law.
Alexander Jannaeus
Alexander Jannaeus was ruler of the Hasmonean state from 103 to 76 BCE . The second son of John Hyrcanus I, he succeeded his brother Judas Aristobulus I when he was twenty‐two.
Ezra/Esdras, Books of
The books of Ezra/Esdras refer to four books attributed to Ezra the Scribe.
Babatha
In 1961, an expedition of the Israel Exploration Society, led by Yigal Yadin, discovered in the cave known as “The Cave of the Letters” in Nahal Hever in the Judaean desert, a leather pouch containing thirty‐five juridical documents which belonged to a Jewish woman named Babatha from the period just prior to the Bar Kokhba revolt.
Captif ou Esclave ? Entre marché d’esclaves et marché de captifs en Méditerranée médiévale
Le rapport entre captivité et esclavage tient une place centrale dans les études sur l’esclavage. Depuis l’Antiquité, les captifs en général, et les prisonniers de guerre en particulier, constituent l’une des sources principales d’approvisionnement pour les marchés d’esclaves. Toutefois, les deux termes, captif et esclave, ne se recouvrent pas complètement. D’un côté, l’esclavage avait toujours d’autres sources hormis la guerre et la capture. De …
Byzance face à l'Islam arabe, VIIe-Xesiècle
Entre VIIeet VIIIesiècle, la carte géopolitique de l'Empire byzantin change radicalement. Byzance est réduite à un tiers de son territoire et doit s'adapter à un nouvel adversaire politique, l'Islam. Quel est l'impact de cette nouvelle réalité politique sur la population byzantine ? Le rapport entre individu et État en est profondément modifié. L'article se focalise sur le cas des réfugiés et des prisonniers de guerre, et montre comment la confro…
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Byzance face à l'Islam arabe, VIIe-Xesiècle
Entre VIIeet VIIIesiècle, la carte géopolitique de l'Empire byzantin change radicalement. Byzance est réduite à un tiers de son territoire et doit s'adapter à un nouvel adversaire politique, l'Islam. Quel est l'impact de cette nouvelle réalité politique sur la population byzantine ? Le rapport entre individu et État en est profondément modifié. L'article se focalise sur le cas des réfugiés et des prisonniers de guerre, et montre comment la confro…
Phocylides, Pseudo‐(Jewish author)
The Sentences, an ethical moral code of conduct in the form of a gnomic poem, was written in didactic hexameters of 230 verses in Ionian dialect and cites as its author Phocylides of Miletos (middle of the sixth century BCE ). The text is, however, later than this and was written in a Hellenistic‐Jewish milieu which some scholars date to 30 BCE to 40 CE . Although it is normally defined as a Hellenistic gnomic text, its combination of references …
Proselytes and proselytism, Jewish
The Greek term proselytos , literally “the one who has arrived at a place,” appears in the Septuagint as a translation of the Hebrew biblical word ger : a foreigner who has come to dwell, referring also to foreigners who have come to dwell among the Israelites, accepting their law.
Alexander Jannaeus
Alexander Jannaeus was ruler of the Hasmonean state from 103 to 76 BCE . The second son of John Hyrcanus I, he succeeded his brother Judas Aristobulus I when he was twenty‐two.
Ezra/Esdras, Books of
The books of Ezra/Esdras refer to four books attributed to Ezra the Scribe.
Babatha
In 1961, an expedition of the Israel Exploration Society, led by Yigal Yadin, discovered in the cave known as “The Cave of the Letters” in Nahal Hever in the Judaean desert, a leather pouch containing thirty‐five juridical documents which belonged to a Jewish woman named Babatha from the period just prior to the Bar Kokhba revolt.
Captif ou Esclave ? Entre marché d’esclaves et marché de captifs en Méditerranée médiévale
Le rapport entre captivité et esclavage tient une place centrale dans les études sur l’esclavage. Depuis l’Antiquité, les captifs en général, et les prisonniers de guerre en particulier, constituent l’une des sources principales d’approvisionnement pour les marchés d’esclaves. Toutefois, les deux termes, captif et esclave, ne se recouvrent pas complètement. D’un côté, l’esclavage avait toujours d’autres sources hormis la guerre et la capture. De …
Slavery in Greco-Roman Egypt
Introduction Anyone who has seen a spectacular movie set in Egypt, say, for example, The Ten Commandments starring Charlton Heston, will be forgiven for coming away with the impression that the land was full of slaves who spent all their time suffering while building pyramids and other massive structures. Herodotus (2.124), of course, reports a similar image of slave labor and pyramid building. So it is perhaps surprising to see in the preceding …
Farewell to our Managing Editor, Dr Tal Goldfajn
Dr Goldfajn (DPhil, Oxford), an accomplished linguist and a specialist in translation, taught at Tel Aviv University and served as the Managing Editor of the Mediterranean Historical Review from 20
A lice R io . Slavery after Rome, 500–1100
Alice Rio’s long-awaited Slavery after Rome offers the first coherent analysis of the outcome of slavery in the early medieval West. It joins the author’s previous studies on law, personal statuses, and slavery in early medieval Latin Europe. Its title notwithstanding, the book is concerned with only some of the regions under the Roman Empire, and is first and foremost a study of Western Europe. The question of the outcome of slavery in the medie…
The Politics of an Apolitical Seminar
As a contribution to the second installment of the Common Knowledge symposium “In the Humanities Classroom,” this essay describes a four-hour meeting of an undergraduate seminar on historiography at Tel Aviv University. The students and instructor alike are enabled, by analyzing together the work of ancient and medieval historians, to examine their own positions vis-à-vis the discipline of history and to reflect on its political and rhetorical as…
The relational mind
The article examines the new psychological language that developed in late antiquity to formulate a personal relationship with the one God. This language used the Greek term for the soul, the psuchē (Latin anima), and defined it as the relational faculty of the human mind. The perception of the human mind as relational became instrumental to formulate the experience of conversion, that is, a mental and emotional process of self-transformation, ps…
The Paradox of Roman Eunuchism
Moral psychopathology and mental health
Following three turning points in the historical development of psychology this study examines how the relation between mental health and the state of illness is linked to the concept of "passions." The first was the birth of modern psychiatry in 18th century France. The second was the development of the field of inquiry in antiquity about the psuchē and its mental activities, and the third was the turn of early Christian thought about mind and s…
Slaveries of the First Millennium
In a world where princesses found themselves enslaved, kidnapped boys became army generals, and biblical Joseph was a role model, this book narrates the formation of the Middle Ages from the point of view of slavery, and outlines a new approach to enhance our understanding of modern forms of enslavement. Offering an analysis of recent scholarship and an array of sources, never before studied together, from distinct societies and cultures of the f…
Rome: An Empire of Many Nations
The center of gravity in Roman studies has shifted far from the upper echelons of government and administration in Rome or the Emperor's court to the provinces and the individual. The multi-disciplinary studies presented in this volume reflect the turn in Roman history to the identities of ethnic groups and even single individuals who lived in Rome's vast multinational empire. The purpose is less to discover another element in the Roman Empire's …
Religious Hatred and Byzantine Ideology before the Crusades
Religious hatred has a long and painful history. It was conceptualized, defined and employed in various ways and for various ends throughout history. The present article focuses on the religious hatred and the roles that it played in Byzantium. It proposes a comparative approach to analyze expressions of religious hatred in Byzantine texts. The article does not analyze religious hatred as the actual hatred that a Christian might feel for his Jewi…
Comparative and Global Framing of Enslavement
Enslavement for Manumission
The article challenges current perspectives on slavery as 'unfreedom' and proposes to examine the enslaved within a socio-political dynamics of power relations. An analysis of four Byzantine documents from the eleventh century and the place they accorded to slaves and manumitted slaves reveals the way enslavement and manumission served together as a means to acquire socioeconomic independence and private authority by turning the enslaved persons …
To Fix Society And Nature
This article explores asceticism as a means for society to play an active role in maintaining the order of the universe. Asceticism has served in several contexts (notably, in the Jewish and Christian societies of the early Byzantine empire) as an instrument for repentance, collective atonement, and moral correction that was meant to bring natural calamities under control. In late antiquity, fasting and self-denial were not only spiritual discipl…
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