Jews in a Graeco-Roman environment
By: Margaret H. Williams
Series: Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament -- 312; Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament -- 312.
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Tübingen, Germany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 462
ISBN-13: 9783161519017
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Judaism; Klassieke oudheid; Judiska inskrifter; Jodendom; Hellenistische Juden; Diaspora; Civilization; Hellenism; Namenkunde; Influence romaine; Civilisation; History; Jews; Judaïsme; Epigraphik; Juifs; Judentum; Historia; Juden; Post-exilic period (Judaism); Hellénisme; Judendom; Judisk diaspora
Work titles: Essays
Notes: Collection of texts published previously.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 389-410) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Jews in a Graeco-Roman environment : context and reception; title: The shaping of the identity of the Jewish community in Rome in antiquity; title: Being a Jew in Rome : sabbath fasting as an expression of Romano-Jewish identity; title: The expulsion of the Jews from Rome in A.D. 19; title: [Theosebēs gar ēn] : the Jewish tendencies of Poppaea Sabina; title: Domitian, the Jews and the "Judaizers" : a simple matter of cupiditas and maiestas?; title: The structure of the Jewish community in Rome; title: The structure of Roman Jewry re-considered : were the synagogues of ancient Rome entirely homogeneous?; title: Exarchon : an unsuspected Jewish liturgical title from ancient Rome; title: Alexander, bubularus de macello : humble sausage-seller or Europe's first identifiable purveyor of kosher beef?; title: The organization of Jewish burials in ancient Rome in the light of evidence from Palestine and the diaspora; title: Image and text in the Jewish epitaphs of late ancient Rome; title: Tiberius and the disobliging grammarian of Rhodes : Suetonius, Vita Tiberi 32.2 re-considered; title: The Jews and godfearers inscription from Aphrodisias : a case of patriarchal interference in early third-century Caria?; title: The Jewish community of Corycus : two more inscriptions; title: The Jews of Corycus : a neglected diasporan community from Roman times; title: The Jews of early Byzantine Venusia : the family of Faustinus I, the Father; title: The meaning and function of Ioudaios in Graeco-Roman inscriptions; title: Palestinian Jewish names in Acts; title: The use of alternative names by diaspora Jews in Graeco-Roman antiquity; title: The case for Jewish use of Moses as a personal name in Graeco-Roman antiquity; title: Jewish festal names in antiquity : a neglected area of onomastic research; title: Semitic name-use by Jews in Roman Asia Minor and the dating of the Aphrodisias stele inscriptions.