Jew-hatred in the Second Temple period / edited by Benedikt Josef Collinet and Frank Ueberschaer

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Collinet, Benedikt Josef, editor.

Ueberschaer, Frank, editor.

Series:

Deuterocanonical and cognate literature studies ; v. 58.

Deuterocanonical and cognate literature studies ; volume 58

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Antisemitism--History.

Antisemitism.

Jews--Social life and customs--To 70 A.D.

Jews.

Jews--Social life and customs.

Genre:

History

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2025]

Summary:

"The experience of violence and verbal harassment was and still is an oppressive reality for Jews. This volume focusses on Jew-hatred and how it was encountered in the Second Temple period. It includes contributions on very different literature from the Hellenistic and Roman times from various proveniences: from Jewish literature in Greek language (e.g. Septuagint and Philo) to the works of Greek and Roman authors. Thus, prejudices, resentments and violence against Jews will be addressed and analyzed as well as how the Jewish community opposed it both pragmatically and intellectually. The historically oriented contributions are complemented by an essay in which past and present experiences are related to each other"-- De Gruyter Brill

Contents:

Antisemitic motives for the persecution of Jews in the Second Temple period as attested in Esther 3 (MT and Old Greek) and in Philo’s In Flaccum / Karin Finsterbusch

Jews as a “warlike and rebellious people” – the intensification of anti-Jewish sentiments in the ancient Esther traditions, focusing on MT, OG and AT 3:8 and its parallels in Addition B / Helge Bezold & Kristin De Troyer

Defining boundaries : inclusion and exclusion of Judean groups in 1 and 2 Maccabees / Jana Hock

Jews and others : characterization, stereotypes, and prototypes in 2 Maccabees / Jan Willem van Henten

Jewish identity, maternal pedagogy, and the charity of martyrdom in 2 Maccabees 7 / Jordan Schmidt

Der drohende Ethnozid der Juden im 3. Makkabäerbuch. Eine jüdische Perspektive auf die „Feindschaft der Völker“ / Stefan Pfeiffer

Bringing on contempt : mechanisms of Judeophobia and despising the despiser in 3 Maccabees / Frank Ueberschaer

The accusation of misanthropy against the Jews in antiquity : a Stoic background? / Katell Berthelot

Exile and diaspora in Philo in the light of Hellenistic philosophical discourse on exile / Sung Soo Hong

Tacitus’s excursus on the Jews (Histories 5.2–13) within its historical context / Torsten Jantsch

Arcana Iudaeorum : anti-Semitism and Juvenal Satira 14 / Massimo Gargiulo

Jew-hatred : ethnicity and practice / Amy-Jill Levine

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Online resource; title from PDF title page (De Gruyter Brill, viewed July 2, 2026)

Other Format:

Print version: Jew-hatred in the Second Temple period

ISBN:

9783111032924

3111032922

9783111032986

3111032981

OCLC:

1525263815

Publisher Number:

CIPO000245818

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license