Tikvah
Editors’ Pick

June 5, 2019

“Peaceful Pluralism” in the Ancient Middle East?

A new exhibit paints an ambiguous picture.

Focusing on the area between the Tigris and the Mediterranean from 100 BCE to 250 CE, the exhibit The World between Empires, currently at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, paints a picture of happy coexistence among Jews, Christians, and pagans during a time when Rome and Persia vied for control of the region. Menachem Wecker writes in his review:

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