Surviving Translation : Studies of Jews in Antiquity for Tessa Rajak / edited by Sarah Pearce and Zuleika Rodgers.

Format:

Book

Series:

Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity E-Books Online, Collection 2026.

Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity E-Books Online, Collection 2026

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rajak, Tessa.

Jews--History.

Jews.

Jewish historians.

Local Subjects:

Rajak, Tessa.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (388 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Studies of Jews in Antiquity for Tessa Rajak

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2026.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A tribute to the life-work of Tessa Rajak, evaluating and engaging with major themes to which she has made ground-breaking contributions to the field of Hellenistic Judaism. Key topics include the study of Josephus as a Jewish historian, of the Greek Bible in its Jewish context, Jewish experiences of ‘diaspora’ life under Greek and Roman rule (including attitudes towards the Roman Empire), the interpretation of Jewish inscriptions, and Jewish creative engagement with the art of translating Jewish traditions into new contexts.

Contents:

Preface

List of Figures

Abbreviations

Notes on Contributors

1 Introduction

Zuleika Rodgers

2 Tracking Josephus from Oxford to Rome: In honorem Tessa Rajak

Loveday Alexander

Part 1 Josephus

3 Rajak’s Josephus: an Appreciation with Methodological Reflections

Steve Mason

4 Conversion in Josephus’ Adiabene Narrative

Anthony Rabin

5 The Reception of Josephus’ Jewish War : the First Two Centuries

Martin Goodman

6 The Translation History of Josephus in the English-Speaking World

Gohei Hata

Part 2 Jewish Worlds in Antiquity

7 Jewish Appropriation of Greek Mythology

Erich S. Gruen

8 The Law in the Diaspora

John J. Collins

9 Allegations of Revolt against the Jews of Babylonia

Anne Fitzpatrick-McKinley

10 “Hic situs est Magnus”: Commenting on Pompey the Great’s Tombs in Egypt

Honora Chapman

11 The Jews of Roman Palmyra

David Noy

12 The Corpus Inscriptionum Iudaeae / Palaestinae : Where Are We, and What Have We Learnt?

Fergus Millar

13 Tacitus’ Excursus on the Jews: Its Context and an Overlooked Literary Device

Miriam Ben Zeev Hofman

Part 3 Greek Bible

14 The Septuagint Psalms and Their Setting

James K. Aitken

15 A Date with the Greek Bible

Sarah Pearce

16 Contested Early Jewish Martyrdom: the Case of the Maccabean Martyrs

Jan Willem van Henten

Appendix: Tessa Rajak’s Publications

Index of Ancient Sources

Index of Subjects.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Print version: Pearce, Sarah Surviving Translation

ISBN:

9789004765078

OCLC:

1607919339

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004765078 DOI