The Jewish Dialogue With Greece and Rome
Subtitle: Studies in Cultural and Social Interaction (Arbeiten Zur Geschichte Des Antiken Judentums Und Des Urchristentums, Bd. 48)
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Published: November 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 579
ISBN-13: 9789004112858
Subjects: European history: BCE to c 500 CE; Jewish studies; Judaism; Judaism - History; History Of Judaism; Relations; Ancient Egypt - History; Religion - Judaism; Judaism - General; Religion; Ancient Rome; Interior Design - General; Judaism - Theology; Ancient - General; 586 B.C.-70 A.D; Greek; Hellenism; History; Jews
Description: "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 Three are previously unpublished, including a reappraisal of the Judaism and Hellenism debate and a study of the Sardis synagogue.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."--BOOK JACKET.