Jews in a Graeco-Roman environment / Margaret H. Williams.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Williams, Margaret, 1947-

Contributor:

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Series:

Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament ; 312.

Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Rome--Civilization.

Jews.

Jews--Civilization--To 70 A.D.

Jews--Civilization.

Hellenism.

Judaism--History--Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D.

Judaism.

History.

Judaism--Post-exilic period (Judaism).

Physical Description:

xiv, 462 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Tübingen, Germany : Mohr Siebeck, [2013]

Contents:

Jews in a Graeco-Roman environment : context and reception

The shaping of the identity of the Jewish community in Rome in antiquity

Being a Jew in Rome : sabbath fasting as an expression of Romano-Jewish identity

The expulsion of the Jews from Rome in A.D. 19

[Theosebēs gar ēn] : the Jewish tendencies of Poppaea Sabina

Domitian, the Jews and the "Judaizers" : a simple matter of cupiditas and maiestas?

The structure of the Jewish community in Rome

The structure of Roman Jewry re-considered : were the synagogues of ancient Rome entirely homogeneous?

Exarchon : an unsuspected Jewish liturgical title from ancient Rome

Alexander, bubularus de macello : humble sausage-seller or Europe's first identifiable purveyor of kosher beef?

The organization of Jewish burials in ancient Rome in the light of evidence from Palestine and the diaspora

Image and text in the Jewish epitaphs of late ancient Rome

Tiberius and the disobliging grammarian of Rhodes : Suetonius, Vita Tiberi 32.2 re-considered

The Jews and godfearers inscription from Aphrodisias : a case of patriarchal interference in early third-century Caria?

The Jewish community of Corycus : two more inscriptions

The Jews of Corycus : a neglected diasporan community from Roman times

The Jews of early Byzantine Venusia : the family of Faustinus I, the Father

The meaning and function of Ioudaios in Graeco-Roman inscriptions

Palestinian Jewish names in Acts

The use of alternative names by diaspora Jews in Graeco-Roman antiquity

The case for Jewish use of Moses as a personal name in Graeco-Roman antiquity

Jewish festal names in antiquity : a neglected area of onomastic research

Semitic name-use by Jews in Roman Asia Minor and the dating of the Aphrodisias stele inscriptions.

Notes:

Collection of texts published previously.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 389-410) and indexes.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9783161519017

3161519019

OCLC:

855531272