The Jewish dialogue with Greece and Rome : studies in cultural and social interaction / by Tessa Rajak.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rajak, Tessa, 1946-

Series:

Arbeiten zur Geschichte des antiken Judentums und des Urchristentums ; Bd. 48.

Arbeiten zur Geschichte des antiken Judentums und des Urchristentums, 0169-734X ; Bd. 48

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Judaism--Relations--Greek religion.

Judaism.

Hellenism.

Jews--History--586 B.C.-70 A.D.

Jews.

Jews--History--168 B.C.-135 A.D.

Jews--Historiography.

Jews--Civilization--Greek influences.

Jewish diaspora.

Josephus, Flavius.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 579 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Twenty-seven interdisciplinary essays on aspects of Judaism in the Greco-Roman world, exemplifying a wide range of techniques, by a well-known scholar. Three are previously unpublished, including a reappraisal of the Judaism and Hellenism debate and a study of the Sardis synagogue. The book's overall coherence derives 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 four sections are: Greeks and Jews, Josephus, The Jewish Diaspora and Epigraphy, and finally Beyond the Greeks and Romans, essays which extend into Christian literature and on to the nineteenth century reception of the Judaism/Hellenism dichotomy. Scholars and students from a wide variety of backgrounds will benefit. This publication has also been published in paperback, please click here for details.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

PREFACE

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS

GREEKS AND JEWS

JUDAISM AND HELLENISM REVISITED

THE SENSE OF HISTORY IN JEWISH INTERTESTAMENTAL WRITING

HASMONEAN KINGSHIP AND THE INVENTION OF TRADITION

THE HASMONEANS AND THE USES OF HELLENISM

ROMAN INTERVENTION IN A SELEUCID SIEGE OF JERUSALEM?

DYING FOR THE LAW: THE MARTYR'S PORTRAIT IN JEWISH-GREEK LITERATURE

JOSEPHUS

ETHNIC IDENTITIES IN JOSEPHUS

FRIENDS, ROMANS, SUBJECTS: AGRIPPA II'S SPEECH IN JOSEPHUS’ JEWISH WAR

JUSTUS OF TIBERIAS AS A JEWISH HISTORIAN

JOSEPHUS AND JUSTUS OF TIBERIAS

THE AGAINST APION AND THE CONTINUITIES IN JOSEPHUS’ POLITICAL THOUGHT

CIÒ CHE FLAVIO GIUSEPPE VIDE: JOSEPHUS AND THE ESSENES

JOSEPHUS AND THE ‘ARCHAEOLOGY’ OF THE JEWS

MOSES IN ETHIOPIA: LEGEND AND LITERATURE

THE PARTHIANS IN JOSEPHUS

THE JEWISH DIASPORA AND JEWISH EPIGRAPHY

WAS THERE A ROMAN CHARTER FOR THE JEWS?

THE JEWISH COMMUNITY AND ITS BOUNDARIES

JEWS AND CHRISTIANS AS GROUPS IN A PAGAN WORLD

BENEFACTORS IN THE GRECO-JEWISH DIASPORA

ARCHISYNAGOGOI: OFFICE, TITLE AND SOCIAL STATUS IN THE GRECO-JEWISH SYNAGOGUE

INSCRIPTION AND CONTEXT: READING THE JEWISH CATACOMBS OF ROME

JEWS, PAGANS AND CHRISTIANS IN LATE ANTIQUE SARDIS: MODELS OF INTERACTION

THE SYNAGOGUE IN THE GRECO-ROMAN CITY

THE RABBINIC DEAD AND THE DIASPORA DEAD AT BETH SHE’ARIM

EPILOGUE

JEWS, SEMITES AND THEIR CULTURES IN FERGUS MILLAR'S ROMAN NEAR EAST

TALKING AT TRYPHO: CHRISTIAN APOLOGETIC AS ANTI-JUDAISM IN JUSTIN'S DIALOGUE WITH TRYPHO THE JEW

JEWS AND GREEKS: THE INVENTION AND EXPLOITATION OF POLARITIES IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

Indices by J.K. Aitken.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-280-46404-6

9786610464043

1-4237-0581-5

90-474-0019-4

OCLC:

191039225

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789047400196 DOI