Diasporas in Antiquity / Shaye J.D. Cohen, Ernest S. Frerichs.

• Author: Brown University.
• TeilnehmendeR: Frerichs, Ernest S.,; Cohen, Shaye J.D.,; Brown University.
• Place / Publishing House: Atlanta : : Scholars Press,, 2020.; ©2020.
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Edition: Second edition.
• Language: English
• Series: Brown Judaic studies; 288
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Notes: The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/. To use this book, or parts of this book, in any way not covered by the license, please contact Brown Judaic Studies, Brown University, Box 1826, Providence, RI 02912.

This volume consists of papers (or the offspring of papers) that were delivered by the Hellenistic Judaism section of the 1990 and 1991 annual meetings of the Society for Biblical Literature. In recognition of the fact that so little work had been down on the subject, presenters were not asked to focus on a single set of questions, a single body of evidence, or utilize a single methodology. Rather the goal was to get a sense of the range of possibilities suggested by the topic. The variety in this collection mirrors the variety of our evidence and the variety of questions that can be asked of it.

Table of Contents

“Those Who Say They are Jews and Are Not”: How Do You Know a Jew in Antiquity When You See One? -- The Unromanized in Rome -- How To Be a Greek and Yet a Jew in Hellenistic Alexandria -- The Birth of a Diaspora: The Emergence of a Jewish Self-Definition in Ptolemaic Egypt in the Light of Onomastics.