is that most writers also refer to the Sabbath as a day of fasting for Jews. [34] Because of later, Talmudic evidence, the literary support for the Sabbath as a fast-day has often been rejected [...] from ordinary Romans; they walked a fine line between integration and isolation. Fasting on the Sabbath was another way in which the Jewish community in Rome distinguished itself from its surrounding [...] (recorded in his biography by Suetonius) he states that “Not even a Jew {{…}} fasts as diligently on his Sabbath as I have done today. It was not until after the first hour of night that I munched a couple of mouthfuls