The Jews among the Greeks and Romans
Subtitle: a diasporan sourcebook
By: edited by Margaret Williams.
Contributors: Williams, Margaret, 1947-
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Baltimore, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
Subjects: Jews -- History -- 586 B.C.-70 A.D. -- Sources.; Jews -- History -- 70-638 -- Sources.; Jews -- Rome -- History -- Sources.; Hellenism -- Sources.; Jews -- Diaspora -- History -- Sources.; Judaism -- History -- Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D. -- Sources.; Judaism -- History -- Talmudic period, 10-425 -- Sources.
Description: In The Jews among the Greeks and Romans, Margaret Williams assembles, assesses, and contextualises literary and archaeological evidence relating to the Jewish communities outside the land of Israel. The sourcebook covers the period beginning with the Diaspora, which resulted from the chaos of Alexander the Great's death in 323 B.C.E., and concluding with the demise of the Jewish Patriarchate around 420 C.E.

This was a time that saw, first, the rapid opening up of opportunities for Jews and then, in the century after Constantine, the gradual but inexorable raising of barriers against them.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-215) and indexes.