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| Title: Peer Solidarity and Communal Loyality in Roman Judaea Secondary Title: JJS Volume: 49 Pages: 264-279 Type: Journal Article Year: 1998 Abstract: "Matthews, Christopher R. in: NTAb 43,2 (1999) 336-337: The external ties of the Judean elite fall into three categories: kinship, philia/amicitia, and zenia/hospitium. With particular attention to the cases of Josephus, Antipater, Herod, and Agrippa the article focuses on zenia, an elite institution binding aristocratic members of different social units to form networks of personal allegiance stretching beyond the social or political bounds of their respective polities. Peer-solidarity and involvement in extra-communal networks of friendship were manifestations of a powerful force that was drawing members of this class toward their peers outside the community and away from their fellow-countrymen, breeding alienation and suspicion in the process and contributing directly to the process of their internal marginalization. Tu judge by Josephus' experience, however, the price paid by members of this class along the wax was not disproportionate to the high dividend awaiting them at moments of the most critical need (see Josephus, War 3:244-291)." Keywords: Jewish History: Roman Era |