Religious Intolerance in the Later Roman Empire - Bad request ...

society, they were, in some sense, and by this law made more obviously and
legislatively, ‘the other.’ Essentially, it was an exclusivist, rather than an inclusive
measure. If so, this perception could arguably have contributed to future violence
against this ‘other’ group being as it was legally established, not quite Roman. No
such considerations extended to the area of finance however (CTh. 13.5.18) in which
Jews were to be treated as individuals and as fairly (or unfairly) as everyone else. CTh.
16.8.9 ordering an end to violence directed against the Jews and protection for them is
notable both for the official tolerance that it extends to Jewish activities and also for
the fact that such violence appears to have been continuing since the famous
destruction at Callinicum five years previously; the government appears to have been
tolerant of intolerance until this law was issued.
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