Ancient Jewish Diaspora : Essays on Hellenism /
The fifteen papers collected in this volume all tackle the complex cultures of Jewish Hellenism. The book covers a wide range of topics, divided into four clusters: Moses and Exodus, Places and Ruins, Theatre and Myth, Antisemitism and Reception.
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Language: English
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2022]
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Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism ;
206.
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Call Number: DS134
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Moses and Exodus
- 2 Places and Ruins
- 3 Theatre and Myth
- 4 Antisemitism and Reception
- Part 1 Moses and Exodus
- 1 Alexandria in Pharaonic Egypt: Projections in De vita Mosis
- 1 Moses and Philo as Politicians
- 2 Moses and Philo as Philosophers
- 2 Moses and the Charlatans: On the Charge of γόης καὶ ἀπατεών in Contra Apionem 2.145, 161
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Magic and Trickery: An Anti-Jewish Accusation?
- 3 Moses Before Pharaoh
- 4 The γόητες in the Bellum and Antiquitates
- 5 A Projection of Josephus?
- 6 Γόης-An Argument from a Literary Dispute?
- 7 Conclusion
- 3 Moses: Motherless with Two Mothers
- 4 Leaving Home: Philo of Alexandria on the Exodus
- Part 2 Places and Ruins
- 5 Geography without Territory: Tacitus's Digression on the Jews and its Ethnographic Context
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Anthropogeography
- 3 Missing Ethnographic Topoi in ancient Ethnography on the Jews
- 4 Jews and Barbarians
- 5 Jewish Diaspora: Transcending Geography
- 6 Show and Tell: Myth, Tourism, and Jewish Hellenism
- 1 Hebron
- 2 Giants
- 3 Rabbinic Mirabilia and Journeys to Rome
- 4 Noah's ark
- 5 Andromeda
- 7 What If the Temple of Jerusalem Had Not Been Destroyed by the Romans?
- 1 Roman Financial Policy
- 2 The End of Sacrifice
- 3 The Jewish Diaspora
- 4 Bar Kokhba and Julian
- 5 Christianity and Rabbinic Culture
- 6 A Watershed in Jewish History?
- Part 3 Theatre and Myth
- 8 Philo's Struggle with Jewish Myth
- 9 Part of the Scene: Jewish Theater in Antiquity
- 1 Rabbinic Condemnations of Theater
- 2 Nuances in Rabbinic Discourse about the Theater
- 3 Jews Attending the Theater
- 4 Jewish Actors and Actresses
- 5 Jewish Theater Authors: Ezekiel Tragicus
- 6 Conclusion
- 10 Take Your Time: Conversion, Confidence and Tranquility in Joseph and Aseneth
- 1 Joseph and Aseneth as a Novel
- 2 Egyptian Restlesness versus Jewish Tranquility
- 3 The First Greek Novel?
- Part 4 Antisemitism and Reception
- 11 Antisemitism and Early Scholarship on Ancient Antisemitism
- 12 A Leap into the Void: The Philo-Lexikon and Jewish-German Hellenism
- 13 Tacitus's Excursus on the Jews over the Centuries: An Overview of the History of its Reception
- 1 Pagan Reception and Tertullian's Critique
- 2 Sulpicius Severus, Orosius, and Pseudo-Hegesippus
- 3 Budés Reproach and the First Commentaries on the Histories
- 4 Jewish Reactions in the Seventeenth Century
- 5 Simone Luzzatto
- 6 Isaac Cardoso
- 7 Baruch de Spinoza
- 8 The Eighteenth Century and the Age of Enlightenment
- 9 The Nineteenth Century
- 10 The National Socialist Period
- 11 Conclusion
- 14 Polytheism and Monotheism in Antiquity: On Jan Assmann's Critique of Monotheism
- 15 Testa incognita: The History of the Pseudo-Josephus Bust in Copenhagen
- 1 Robert Eisler
- 2 The Origins of the Bust
- Index of Cited Passages
- Index of Names
- Index of Subjects.