Ancient Jewish Diaspora : Essays on Hellenism /

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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Main Author: Bloch, René (Author)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022]

Series: Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism ; 206.

Subjects:

Ancient Judaism.
Biblical Studies.
Civilization, Ancient.
Jewish diaspora.
Jews > History > To 70 A.D.
Jews > Identity.

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Call Number: DS134

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Table of Contents:
  • 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.