Jews in a Graeco-Roman World
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Product details:
- Publisher Clarendon Press
- Date of Publication 17 December 1998
- ISBN 9780198150787
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages304 pages
- Size 224x144x21 mm
- Weight 462 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This book contains studies of the social, cultural, and religious history of the Jews in the Graeco-Roman world. Some of the sixteen contributors are specialists in Jewish history, others in classics. They tackle from different angles the extent to which Jews in this period differed from other peoples in the Mediterranean region, and how much Jewish evidence can be used for the history of the wider classical world.
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This book contains studies of the social, cultural, and religious history of the Jews in the Graeco-Roman world. Some of the sixteen contributors are specialists in Jewish history, others in classics. They tackle from different angles the extent to which Jews in this period differed from other peoples in the Mediterranean region, and how much Jewish evidence can be used for the history of the wider classical world.
The authors make extensive use not only of types of evidence familiar to classicists, such as inscriptions and the writing of Josephus, but also Jewish religious literature, including rabbinic texts. The various studies demonstrate that, although Jews lived to some extent apart from others and with distinctive customs, in many ways this showed the cultural presuppositions and preoccupations of their gentile contemporaries.
The book aims to encourage wider use of the Jewish evidence by classicists and will be important for all students of the classical world.
offers sixteen articles, mostly brief, on aspects of Jewish culture and history from Hellenistic times through to the first centuries of this era, from a set of contributors who are largely the scholars one would most want to read on this area (rather than just the usual suspects) ... It is a fine snapshot of a field struggling to find cultural history from its competing areas of expertise.
Table of Contents:
Part I: The Hellenistic and Roman world - Jewish perspectives
Jews, Greeks, and Romans
Jews, Greeks, and Romans in the Third Sibylline Oracle
The hellenization of Jerusalem and Shechem
Josephus' Tobiads
Part II: Social Integration?
Jewish and Christian Communities in Southern Palestine
`And he made his grave with the wicked'
Part III: Similarities?
Graeco-Roman Voluntary Associations and Jewish Sects
Antichrist among Jews and Gentiles
Rhetoric and assumptions: Romans and Rabbis on Sex
Gambling in Ancient Jewish Society and in the Graeco-Roman World
The Rabbis and the Documents
Jewish Penal Authority in Roman Judaea
Part IV: Differences?
Synagogue Leadership in the Diaspora and Palestine
The Structure of the Jewish Community in Rome
The Gifts of God at Sardis
Dissonance and Misinterpretation in Jewish-Roman Relations
