The Jewish Dialogue With Greece and Rome: Studies in Cultural and Social Interaction

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BRILL, 2002 - Religion - 579 pages
This volume includes twenty-seven interdisciplinary essays written by Tessa Rajak, a well-known scholar, on aspects of Judaism in the Greco-Roman world. The essays derive from the author's long-standing interests in the analysis of texts as documents of cultural and religious interaction, and in how Jewish communities were woven into the social fabric of Greek cities in the Hellenistic and Roman East. The book is divided into four sections: Greeks and Jews, Josephus, The Jewish Diaspora and Epigraphy, and an epilogue, which addresses modern uses and abuses of the Greek-Jewish polarity as exemplified by three nineteenth-century writers. Scholars and students from a wide variety of backgrounds will benefit. This publication has also been published in hardback, please click here for details.
 

Contents

Judaism and Hellenism Revisited
3
The Sense of History in Jewish Intertestamental
11
Hasmonean Kingship and the Invention
36
The Hasmoneans and the Uses of Hellenism 1990
61
Roman Intervention in a Seleucid Siege
81
The Martyrs Portrait
99
Ethnic Identities in Josephus
137
Agrippa IIs Speech
147
The Parthians in Josephus 1998
273
Was there a Roman Charter for the Jews? 1984
301
The Jewish Community and its Boundaries 1992
335
Jews and Christians as Groups in a Pagan
353
Benefactors in the GrecoJewish Diaspora 1996
373
Office Title and Social Status in
390
Reading the Jewish
431
The Synagogue in the GrecoRoman City 1999
463

Justus of Tiberias as a Jewish Historian
161
Josephus and Justus of Tiberias 1985
177
The Against Apion and the Continuities in Josephus
195
Josephus and
219
Josephus and the Archaeology of the Jews 1982
241
Legend and Literature 1978
257
The Rabbinic Dead and the Diaspora Dead
479
Jews Semites and their Cultures in Fergus Millars
503
Christian Apologetic as AntiJudaism
511
The Invention and Exploitation
535
Indices
559
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Tessa Rajak is currently Reader in Classics, University of Reading, and Associate Director, AHRB Research Centre for the Study of Jewish Non-Jewish Relations.

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