Jews in the Mediterranean diaspora
Subtitle: from Alexander to Trajan (323 BCE - 117 CE)
By: John M.G. Barclay.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 522
Subjects: Jews -- Mediterranean Region -- History; Jews -- History -- 586 B.C.-70 A.D; Jews -- History -- 168 B.C.-135 A.D; Jewish diaspora -- History; Jews -- Egypt -- History; Mediterranean Region -- Ethnic relations
Description: "Hitherto, studies of Jews in the period from Alexander to Trajan have concentrated almost exclusively on Jerusalem and Judea. In this book, John Barclay assembles and analyzes evidence about the Jewish communities that scattered to Egypt, Syria, Cyrenaica, and Rome in the Diaspora. Barclay's ambitious goal is to describe, as precisely as the evidence allows, the levels of assimilation (social integration), acculturation (language/education), and accommodation (use of acculturation) at which the Jews arrived, and to reveal the variety of ways in which Jews interacted with non-Jews in the ancient world. With a concluding review of Jewish identity in the Diaspora as a whole, this book provides our first comprehensive and multifaceted survey of Diaspora communities and Diaspora literature."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.