Religious Studies
Jonathan A. Pomeranz
The Humility of God in Rabbinic Judaism
Rabbinic Myth in the Roman Empire
Volume 5 (2019) / Issue 2,
pp. 170-195 (26)
Published 15.01.2020
all-powerful Christian emperor. Midrashim that depict God demonstrating humility can, therefore, only be understood fully in the context of contemporaneous Roman and Christian ideologies.