Diaspora
Subtitle: Jews amidst Greeks and Romans
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: May 15, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780674007505
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history: BCE to c 500 CE; Jewish studies; World history; Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D; Jews; History - General History; Literary Criticism; Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-2; Literature: Classics; ASIA; Ancient World; Judaism; Ancient - General; History / Ancient / General; History; Jewish; 586 B.C.-70 A.D; Jewish diaspora
Description: "What was life like for Jews settled throughout the Mediterranean world of Classical antiquity - and what place did Jewish communities have in the diverse civilization dominated by Greeks and Romans? In a probing account of the Jewish diaspora in the four centuries from Alexander the Great's conquest of the Near East to the Roman destruction of the Jewish Temple in 70 C.E., Erich Gruen reaches often surprising conclusions."--BOOK JACKET.