The Jewish dialogue with Greece and Rome : studies in cultural and social interaction /

The Jewish dialogue with Greece and Rome : studies in cultural and social interaction /

Twenty-seven interdisciplinary essays on aspects of Judaism in the Greco-Roman world, exemplifying a wide range of techniques, by a well-known scholar. Three are previously unpublished, including a reappraisal of the Judaism and Hellenism debate and a study of the Sardis synagogue. The book's o...

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Main Author: Rajak, Tessa, 1946-

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2001.

Series: Arbeiten zur Geschichte des antiken Judentums und des Urchristentums 48.
Ancient Judaism & Early Christianity Online, ISBN: 9789004365223.

Subjects:

Josephus, Flavius.
586 B.C. - 135 A.D.
Judaism > Relations > Greek religion.
Hellenism.
Jews > History > 586 B.C.-70 A.D.
Jews > History > 168 B.C.-135 A.D.
Jews > Historiography.
Jews > Civilization > Greek influences.
Jewish diaspora.
Jews.
Judaism.
History.

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Call Number: BM536.G7 R35 2001eb

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • PREFACE
  • ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  • LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
  • GREEKS AND JEWS
  • JUDAISM AND HELLENISM REVISITED
  • THE SENSE OF HISTORY IN JEWISH INTERTESTAMENTAL WRITING
  • HASMONEAN KINGSHIP AND THE INVENTION OF TRADITION
  • THE HASMONEANS AND THE USES OF HELLENISM
  • ROMAN INTERVENTION IN A SELEUCID SIEGE OF JERUSALEM?
  • DYING FOR THE LAW: THE MARTYR'S PORTRAIT IN JEWISH-GREEK LITERATURE
  • JOSEPHUS
  • ETHNIC IDENTITIES IN JOSEPHUS
  • FRIENDS, ROMANS, SUBJECTS: AGRIPPA II'S SPEECH IN JOSEPHUS' JEWISH WAR
  • JUSTUS OF TIBERIAS AS A JEWISH HISTORIAN
  • JOSEPHUS AND JUSTUS OF TIBERIAS
  • THE AGAINST APION AND THE CONTINUITIES IN JOSEPHUS' POLITICAL THOUGHT
  • CIÒ CHE FLAVIO GIUSEPPE VIDE: JOSEPHUS AND THE ESSENES
  • JOSEPHUS AND THE 'ARCHAEOLOGY' OF THE JEWS
  • MOSES IN ETHIOPIA: LEGEND AND LITERATURE
  • THE PARTHIANS IN JOSEPHUS
  • THE JEWISH DIASPORA AND JEWISH EPIGRAPHY
  • WAS THERE A ROMAN CHARTER FOR THE JEWS?
  • THE JEWISH COMMUNITY AND ITS BOUNDARIES
  • JEWS AND CHRISTIANS AS GROUPS IN A PAGAN WORLD
  • BENEFACTORS IN THE GRECO-JEWISH DIASPORA
  • ARCHISYNAGOGOI: OFFICE, TITLE AND SOCIAL STATUS IN THE GRECO-JEWISH SYNAGOGUE
  • INSCRIPTION AND CONTEXT: READING THE JEWISH CATACOMBS OF ROME
  • JEWS, PAGANS AND CHRISTIANS IN LATE ANTIQUE SARDIS: MODELS OF INTERACTION
  • THE SYNAGOGUE IN THE GRECO-ROMAN CITY
  • THE RABBINIC DEAD AND THE DIASPORA DEAD AT BETH SHE'ARIM
  • EPILOGUE
  • JEWS, SEMITES AND THEIR CULTURES IN FERGUS MILLAR'S ROMAN NEAR EAST
  • TALKING AT TRYPHO: CHRISTIAN APOLOGETIC AS ANTI-JUDAISM IN JUSTIN'S DIALOGUE WITH TRYPHO THE JEW
  • JEWS AND GREEKS: THE INVENTION AND EXPLOITATION OF POLARITIES IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
  • Indices by J.K. Aitken.