Ancient Jewish Diaspora : : Essays on Hellenism / / René Bloch.

• Superior document: Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism ; 206
• VerfasserIn: Bloch, René,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2022]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism ; 206.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (373 pages)

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.

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.