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"According to Raúl González Salinero, the plurality of religious expressions within Judaism prior to the predominance of the rabbinical current disproves the assumption according to which some Jewish customs and precepts (especially the Sabbath) prevented Jews from joining the Roman army without renouncing their ancestral culture. The military exemption occasionally granted to the Jews by the Roman authorities was compatible with their voluntary enlistment (as it was in the Hellenistic armies) in order to obtain Roman citizenship. As the sources attest, Judaism did not pose any insurmountable obstacle to integration of the Jews into the Roman world. They achieved a noteworthy presence in the Roman army by the fourth century CE, at which time the Church's influence over imperial power led to their exclusion from the militia armata"--

Reseña de: Zeichmann, Christopher B. (ed.): Essential Essays for the Study of the Military in First-Century Palestine. Soldiers and the New Testament Context, Eugene (Oregon), Pickwick Publications, 2019, 151 pp., ISBN: 978-1-5326-5638-5.

Una ley de Valentiniano I [C.Th., Vil, 8, 2 = C.Iust, I, 9, 4) decretaba la exención para la Sinagoga del militare hospitium. De acuerdo con su política religiosa tolerante, este emperador consideraba a la Sinagoga como un locus religionis y, por tanto, como un lugar protegido. Sin embargo, la reiterada legislación posterior sobre este tema demuestra que esta política prudente no pudo frenar la hostilidad cristiana. ; A law of Valentinianus I (C.Th., VII, 8, 2 = C.Iust, I, 9, 4) decreed the exemption of the militare hospitium to the Synagogue. According to his tolerant religious policy, this emperor regarded the Synagogue as a locus religionis, that is, as a protected place. However, the later repeated legislation about this subject proves that this wise policy could not brake the Christian hostility.