Ethnicity in the Ancient World – Did it matter? / / Erich S. Gruen.
This study approaches the topic of ethnicity through the lenses of the ancients themselves rather than through the imposition of modern categories. It takes into account the expressions and attitudes of a wide variety of Greek, Roman, Jewish, and early Christian sources. A central issue guides the c...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2020] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Were Barbarians Barbaric?
- 2 Herodotus and Greekness
- 3 The Racial Judgments of Polybius
- 4 Rome’s Multiple Identities and Tangled Perspectives
- 5 Constructed Ethnicities in Republican Italy
- 6 The Chosen People and Mixed Marriages
- 7 Did Hellenistic Jews Consider Themselves a Race or a Religion?
- 8 Philo and Jewish Ethnicity
- 9 The Ethnic Vocabulary of Josephus
- 10 The Racial Reflections of Paul
- 11 Christians as a “Third Race”?
- 12 Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Primary source index
- General Index