Looking in, Looking Out : : Jews and Non-Jews in Mutual Contemplation / / edited by David A. Friedman and Kimberley Czajkowski.

• Superior document: Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism Series ; Volume 212
• TeilnehmendeR: Czajkowski, Kimberley,; Friedman, David A., 1952-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands : : Koninklijke Brill NV,, [2024]; ©2024
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Series: Supplements to The journal of Jewish thought and philosophy ; Volume 212.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (467 pages)

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’s colleagues and students follow his example by examining Jews and non-Jews in mutual contemplation. Part 1 explores Jews’ views of inter-communal stasis, the causes of the Bar Kochba revolt, tales of Herodian intrigue, and the meaning of “Israel.” Part 2 investigates Jews depiction of outsiders: Moabites, Greeks, Arabs, and Roman authorities. Part 3 explores early Christians’ (Luke, Jerome, Rufinus, Syriac poetry, Pionius, ordinary individuals) views of Jews and use of Jewish sources, and Josephus’s relevance for girls in 19th century Britain.

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.