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Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria III.7.21

Jews as a “pernicious nation”.

Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria VIII.1.1-3

The necessity to use good Latin.

Revelation 13:11-18

The vision of the beast

Revelation 16:1-19

The fall of the kingdom of the beast

Revelation 17:1-18

The great whore

Romans 13:1-7

Paul instructs the Christians in Rome to respect the ruling authorities

Rutilius Namatianus, On His Return I.377-398

Invective against Jews.

Rutilius Namatianus, On His Return I.43-92

Praise of Rome’s capacity to rule a universal empire

Sallust, The War with Jugurtha LXXXI.1

Jugurtha’s speech against Rome

Salvian of Marseille, On the Providential Rule of God V.21-23

Gallic provincials who preferred to lose their Roman citizenship by emigrating towards barbarian or bacaudic areas

Salvian of Marseille, On the Providential Rule of God V.24-25

The malfunctions of the Roman tax system and of civic institutions as source of social troubles

Seneca, Apocolocyntosis III

Criticism against Claudius’s policy concerning the grant of Roman citizenship.

Sibylline Oracles I.387-400

The prediction of the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple

Sibylline Oracles III.46-62

Rome’s triumph over Egypt before her decimation by God, and the arrival of a “holy prince”

Sifra Aḥarey Mot, parashah 8 chapter 3, 86a-b

The Torah and the laws of the gentiles: the appeal of non-Jewish laws and practices

Sifra Emor, parashah 8, pereq 3 (99d)

Trajan kills Pappus and Lulianus

Sifra, Aḥarey Mot, parashah 8, pereq 3 (92d)

The importance of bringing peace

Sifra, Beḥuqotay 2:7, 112c

Sifre Deuteronomy 16

Rabbinic sages as experts in Jewish law and in the laws of the nations

Sifre Deuteronomy 305

The status of Israel following the destruction of the Temple, and theological explanations for those conditions

Judaism and Rome