Looking In, Looking Out: Jews and Non-Jews in Mutual Contemplation : Essays for Martin Goodman on His 70th Birthday /

Martin Goodman's forty years of scholarship in Roman history and ancient Judaism demonstrates how each discipline illuminates the other: Jewish history makes best sense in a broader Greco-Roman context; Roman history has much to learn from Jewish sources and evidence. In this volume, Martin...

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Other Authors: Czajkowski, Kimberley (Editor), Friedman, David A. (Editor)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2024.

Series: Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity E-Books Online, Collection 2024.
Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism ; 212.

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Call Number: BM535

Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material /
  • Kimberley Czajkowski and David Friedman
  • Chapter 1 Historiography in the Time of Stasis : Reflections on the Nationalistic Uprisings in Judea/Palestine /
  • Jonathan Price
  • Chapter 2 The Ban on Circumcision as a Cause of the Bar Kokhba Revolt: A Reconsideration /
  • Aharon Oppenheimer z"l
  • Chapter 3 "When I Die, Kill Those Elders": The Twice-Told Tale of a Despot's Death /
  • Amram Tropper
  • Chapter 4 Pitying Suppliant Animals /
  • Shaye J. D. Cohen
  • Chapter 5 Who Are Israel in the Mishnah and Tosefta? /
  • Yehudah B. Cohn
  • Chapter 6 Playing with the Moabites: Textual and Linguistic Reflections on Isaiah 15-16 /
  • H. G. M. Williamson
  • Chapter 7 Greek Identity in Josephus's Against Apion /
  • Jonathan Davies
  • Chapter 8 Josephus and Nicolaus on Arabs and Arabia /
  • Daniel R. Schwartz
  • Chapter 9 Calendars and Dates in the Early Decades of Provincia Arabia: A Reappraisal /
  • Sacha Stern
  • Chapter 10 The Rule of the Wise as an Alternative to Kingship and Democracy in Ancient Rabbinic and Philosophical Thought /
  • Catherine Hezser
  • Chapter 11 A Tale of Two Cities: Rome and Jerusalem in Jewish Eschatology between 70 CE and 135 CE /
  • Philip Alexander
  • Chapter 12 Monotheism and Religious Wars in Antiquity /
  • Benjamin Isaac
  • Chapter 13 Did First-Century Asian Jews Live in "Communities"? /
  • Seth Schwartz
  • Chapter 14 Jewish-Christian Polemic in Martyrium Pionii /
  • William Horbury
  • Chapter 15 Friendships between Jews and Christians in Antiquity /
  • Markus Bockmuehl
  • Chapter 16 Jerome, Jews, and "Hebrews" /
  • Alison G. Salvesen
  • Chapter 17 Rufinus of Aquileia's Eusebian Therapeutae: A Monastic Reinterpretation of Philo's De vita contemplativa /
  • Sabrina Inowlocki
  • Chapter 18 Antiochus Proposes, Shmoni Disposes: A Syriac Poem on the Martyrs of 2 Maccabees 7 /
  • Sebastian Brock
  • Chapter 19 Josephus for Girls /
  • Tessa Rajak
  • M. D. Goodman's Publications.