Jews in a Graeco-Roman world / edited by Martin Goodman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Goodman, Martin, editor.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Jews.

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

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 293 p. )

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

These studies of the social, cultural, and religious history of Jews in the Graeco-Roman world examine the extent to which Jews from that period differed from other Mediterranean peoples & how their history links to the history of the wider classical world.

Contents:

Jews, Greeks, and Romans / Martin Goodman

Jews, Greeks, and Romans in the Third Sibylline Oracle / Erich S. Gruen

Hellenization of Jerusalem and Shechem / Seth Schwartz

Josephus' Tobiads : back to the second century? / Daniel R. Schwartz

Jews, Christians and others in Palestine : the evidence from Eusebius / Benjamin Isaac

Where were the Jews of the Diaspora buried? / David Noy

Graeco-Roman voluntary associations and ancient Jewish sects / Albert Baumgarten

Antichrist among Jews and Gentiles / William Horbury

Rhetoric and assumptions : Romans and rabbis on sex / Michael L. Satlow

Gambling in ancient Jewish society and in the Graeco-Roman world / Joshua Schwartz

Rabbis and the documents / Hannah M. Cotton

Jewish penal authority in Roman Judaea / Aharon Oppenheimer

Synagogue leadership : the case of the archisynagogue / Lee Levine

Structure of the Jewish community in Rome / Margaret Williams

Gifts of God at Sardis / Tessa Rajak

Dissonance and misunderstanding in Jewish-Roman relations / Sacha Stern.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 1998.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-278) and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

1-383-00601-6

1-280-76412-0

9786610764129

0-19-151836-0

OCLC:

1406784717