Jewish ethnic identity and relations in Hellenistic Egypt
Subtitle: with walls of iron?
By: by Stewart Moore
Series: Supplements to the Journal for the study of Judaism -- volume 171
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 291
ISBN-13: 9789004301924; 9789004303089
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Historiography; Greek influences; Jewish learning and scholarship; Jews; Civilization; Judaism; Identity; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Thicker than water? A social-scientific approach to ancient Judean ethnicity; title: The history of dustbins: reconstructing ethnicity from the papyri; title: Reflections on the Nile: Hellenistic ethnographers and the Greco-Egyptian boundary; title: From the mouths of beasts: ethnic identity in apocalyptic literature from Egypt; title: For the sake of mice and weasels: ethnic boundaries and the "cultural stuff" in the Letter of Aristeas.