The Jewish dialogue with Greece and Rome : : studies in cultural and social interaction / / Tessa Rajak.

Twenty-seven interdisciplinary essays on aspects of Judaism in the Greco-Roman world, exemplifying a wide range of techniques, by a well-known scholar. Three are previously unpublished, including a reappraisal of the Judaism and Hellenism debate and a study of the Sardis synagogue. The book's o...

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Superior document:Arbeiten zur Geschichte des antiken Judentums und des Urchristentums, Bd. 48
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2001.
Year of Publication:2001
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Arbeiten zur Geschichte des antiken Judentums und des Urchristentums ; Bd. 48.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xix, 579 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • PREFACE
  • ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  • LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
  • GREEKS AND JEWS
  • JUDAISM AND HELLENISM REVISITED
  • THE SENSE OF HISTORY IN JEWISH INTERTESTAMENTAL WRITING
  • HASMONEAN KINGSHIP AND THE INVENTION OF TRADITION
  • THE HASMONEANS AND THE USES OF HELLENISM
  • ROMAN INTERVENTION IN A SELEUCID SIEGE OF JERUSALEM?
  • DYING FOR THE LAW: THE MARTYR'S PORTRAIT IN JEWISH-GREEK LITERATURE
  • JOSEPHUS
  • ETHNIC IDENTITIES IN JOSEPHUS
  • FRIENDS, ROMANS, SUBJECTS: AGRIPPA II'S SPEECH IN JOSEPHUS’ JEWISH WAR
  • JUSTUS OF TIBERIAS AS A JEWISH HISTORIAN
  • JOSEPHUS AND JUSTUS OF TIBERIAS
  • THE AGAINST APION AND THE CONTINUITIES IN JOSEPHUS’ POLITICAL THOUGHT
  • CIÒ CHE FLAVIO GIUSEPPE VIDE: JOSEPHUS AND THE ESSENES
  • JOSEPHUS AND THE ‘ARCHAEOLOGY’ OF THE JEWS
  • MOSES IN ETHIOPIA: LEGEND AND LITERATURE
  • THE PARTHIANS IN JOSEPHUS
  • THE JEWISH DIASPORA AND JEWISH EPIGRAPHY
  • WAS THERE A ROMAN CHARTER FOR THE JEWS?
  • THE JEWISH COMMUNITY AND ITS BOUNDARIES
  • JEWS AND CHRISTIANS AS GROUPS IN A PAGAN WORLD
  • BENEFACTORS IN THE GRECO-JEWISH DIASPORA
  • ARCHISYNAGOGOI: OFFICE, TITLE AND SOCIAL STATUS IN THE GRECO-JEWISH SYNAGOGUE
  • INSCRIPTION AND CONTEXT: READING THE JEWISH CATACOMBS OF ROME
  • JEWS, PAGANS AND CHRISTIANS IN LATE ANTIQUE SARDIS: MODELS OF INTERACTION
  • THE SYNAGOGUE IN THE GRECO-ROMAN CITY
  • THE RABBINIC DEAD AND THE DIASPORA DEAD AT BETH SHE’ARIM
  • EPILOGUE
  • JEWS, SEMITES AND THEIR CULTURES IN FERGUS MILLAR'S ROMAN NEAR EAST
  • TALKING AT TRYPHO: CHRISTIAN APOLOGETIC AS ANTI-JUDAISM IN JUSTIN'S DIALOGUE WITH TRYPHO THE JEW
  • JEWS AND GREEKS: THE INVENTION AND EXPLOITATION OF POLARITIES IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
  • Indices by J.K. Aitken.