Greeks, Romans and Jews: Collected Essays on the Jewish-Greek Tradition (Arbeiten zur Geschichte des Antiken Judentums und des Urchristentums (Ancient ... in Cultural and Social Interaction: 48 - Hardcover

Rajak

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004112855 ISBN 13: 9789004112858

Publisher: Brill, 2000

Synopsis

Twenty-seven interdisciplinary essays, three of them previously unpublished, on aspects of Judaism in the Greco-Roman world, by a well-known scholar. The four sections are: Greeks and Jews, Josephus, The Jewish Diaspora and Epigraphy, and finally Beyond the Greeks and Romans. This publication has also been published in paperback, please click here for details.

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Review:

'...any scholar interested in the broad subject of ethnicity in the ancient world, and in the more narrow subject of Jewish interaction with that world, would learn much. ...a timely volume full of rich pickings and one which helpfully brings together the important thoughts of a significant player in ancient Jewish studies.'
James Carleton Paget, Journal of Theological Studies, 2002.
'...most welcome, an inspired idea, and a boon for scholars and students of this subject.'
Erich S. Gruen, Scripta Classica Israelica, 2002.
'Rajak's scholarship is solid and well-considered...a convenient collection of valuable contributions to this dynamic field.'
James E. Bowley, Religious Studies Review, 2002.

Synopsis:

This title contains 27 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 Three are previously unpublished, including a reappraisal of the Judaism and Hellenism debate and a study of the Sardis synagogue.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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Brill
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 9004112855
• ISBN 13: 9789004112858
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 560