Johanan ben Zakkai, Rabbi

Johanan ben Zakkai (first century CE ) was a rabbinic sage and leader in Roman Judaea near the destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem in 70 CE . The Jews had a long history of dwelling under the hegemony of greater powers. After the end of the Davidic Dynasty, they fell beneath the shadow of a succession of overlords, whether near or far: Babylonians, Persians, Ptolemies, Seleucids, and Romans. A form of autonomy existed briefly for the Jews in the time of the Hasmoneans and Herod, but even that was cramped by the need to peer regularly over their shoulders at, and seek the collaboration of, either Seleucids or Romans. Under the circumstances, how would Jews formulate and express a sense of their own identity in the larger world of the Mediterranean and Near East – where they regularly played a subordinate role?

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• A Life of Rabban Yoḥanan ben Zakkai (ca. 1-80 C.E.)

  Jacob Neusner•A Life of Rabban Yoḥanan ben…•1962

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