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Rabbinic Texts on Jews in Rome
3rd–6th Centuries
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Primary Source
The Talmud on Jews in Rome
b. Avodah Zarah 54b–55a|b. Gittin 58a|b. Sanhedrin 32b
The sages taught: [Certain] philosophers asked the [Jewish] sages [who were] in Rome: If it is not your God’s will [that people should engage] in idol…
Primary Source
Genesis Rabbah on Jews in Rome
Genesis Rabbah 33:1
R. Joshua ben Levi went to Rome. He saw there pillars that were covered by tapestries during the cold so that they would not freeze and during the heat so that they would not break. And he saw, while…