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 Three are previously unpublished, including a reappraisal of the Judaism and Hellenism debate and a study of the Sardis synagogue.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.
Author(s): Tessa Rajak
Series: Arbeiten Zur Geschichte Des Antiken Judentums Und Des Urchristentums 48
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Year: 1999
Language: English
Pages: 600
THE JEWISH DIALOGUE WITH GREECE AND ROME: Studies in Cultural and Social Interaction......Page 4
Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 12
List of Abbreviations......Page 16
PART ONE: GREEKS AND JEWS......Page 22
1. Judaism and Hellenism Revisited......Page 24
2. The Sense of History in Jewish Intertestamental Writing (1986)......Page 32
3. Hasmonean Kingship and the Invention of Tradition (1996)......Page 60
4. The Hasmoneans and the Uses of Hellenism (1990)......Page 82
5. Roman Intervention in a Seleucid Siege of Jerusalem? (1981)......Page 102
6. Dying for the Law: The Martyr's Portrait in Jewish-Greek Literature (1997)......Page 120
PART TWO: JOSEPHUS......Page 156
7. Ethnic Identities in Josephus......Page 158
8. Friends, Romans, Subjects: Agrippa II's Speech in Josephus' Jewish War (1991)......Page 168
9. Justus of Tiberias as a Jewish Historian (1973, excerpt)......Page 182
10. Josephus and Justus of Tiberias (1985)......Page 198
11. The Against Apion and the Continuities in Josephus' Political Thought (1998)......Page 216
12. Ciò che Flavio Giuseppe Vide: Josephus and the Essenes (1994)......Page 240
13. Josephus and the 'Archaeology' of the Jews (1982)......Page 262
14. Moses in Ethiopia: Legend and Literature (1978)......Page 278
15. The Parthians in Josephus (1998)......Page 294
PART THREE: THE JEWISH DIASPORA AND JEWISH EPIGRAPHY......Page 320
16. Was there a Roman Charter for the Jews? (1984)......Page 322
17. The Jewish Community and its Boundaries (1992)......Page 356
18. Jews and Christians as Groups in a Pagan world (1985)......Page 376
19. Benefactors in the Greco-Jewish Diaspora (1996)......Page 394
20. Archisynagogoi: Office, Title and Social Status in the Greco-Jewish Synagogue (1993; with David Noy)......Page 414
21. Inscription and Context: Reading the Jewish Catacombs of Rome (1994)......Page 452
22. Jews, Pagans and Christians in Late Antique Sardis: Models of Interaction......Page 468
23. The Synagogue in the Greco-Roman City (1999)......Page 484
24. The Rabbinic Dead and the Diaspora Dead at Beth She'arim (1998)......Page 500
PART FOUR: EPILOGUE......Page 522
25. Jews, Semites and their Cultures in Fergus Millar's Roman Near East (2000)......Page 524
26. Talking at Trypho: Christian Apologetic as Anti-Judaism in Justin's Dialogue with Trypho the Jew (1999)......Page 532
27. Jews and Greeks: The Invention and Exploitation of Polarities in the Nineteenth Century (1999)......Page 556
A......Page 580
B......Page 581
C......Page 582
D......Page 583
G......Page 584
H......Page 585
J......Page 586
K......Page 587
M......Page 588
P......Page 589
Q......Page 590
S......Page 591
T......Page 592
Z......Page 593
C......Page 594
G......Page 595
L......Page 596
P......Page 597
S......Page 598
W......Page 599
Z......Page 600
