By the beginning of the first century AD, Jews had spread from their homeland in Judaea across the Mediterranean and there were major Jewish communities in Syria, Egypt, and Greece. Practicing a ...

The complete Mediterranean basin was effectively Roman ... For the ordinary people of the Jewish homeland, Rome was a kind of dominant political factor. Although they might not have seen Romans ...

His work centers on Muslim-Christian-Jewish relations and ethno-religious identity in medieval Europe and the Islamic World, and the history of the pre-Modern Mediterranean. In addition to many ...

A Maltese boat was crossing over from Sicily in 1486 when one of those frightful Mediterranean storms broke ... “This is divine punishment! Five Jews are on board! They have brought God ...