Jewish ethnic identity and relations in Hellenistic Egypt : : with walls of iron? / / by Stewart Moore.
In Jewish Ethnic Identity and Relations in Hellenistic Egypt , Stewart Moore investigates the foundations of common assumptions about ethnicity. To maintain one’s identity in a strange land, was it always necessary to band tightly together with one’s coethnics? Sociologists and anthropologists who s...
Saved in:
| : | |
|---|---|
| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill. c2015. |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism
171. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (303 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
Table of Contents:
- Front Matter
- Introduction
- Thicker than Water? A Social-Scientific Approach to Ancient Judean Ethnicity
- The History of Dustbins: Reconstructing Ethnicity from the Papyri
- Reflections on the Nile: Greek Ethnographers and the Egyptians’ Boundary
- From the Mouths of Beasts: Ethnic Identity in Apocalyptic Literature from Egypt
- For the Sake of Mice and Weasels: Ethnic Boundaries and the “Cultural Stuff” in the Letter of Aristeas
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Subject Index.