Jews in a Graeco-Roman world / edited by Martin Goodman.

This book contains studies of the social, cultural, and religious history of the Jews in the Graeco-Roman world. Some of the sixteen contributors are specialists in Jewish history, others in classics. They tackle from different angles the extent to which Jews in this period differed from other peopl...

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Other Authors:	Goodman, Martin, 1953-
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 1998.
Subjects:	To 210 Jews > Rome > Civilization. Jews > Civilization > To 70 A.D. Hellenism. Judaism > History > Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D. Jews > History > 168 B.C.-135 A.D. HISTORY > Ancient. Hellenism Jews Jews > Civilization Judaism > Post-exilic period (Judaism) Joden. Hellenisme. Romeinse oudheid. Rome (Empire) History
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Table of Contents:

Jews, Greeks, and Romans / Martin Goodman
Jews, Greeks, and Romans in the Third Sibylline Oracle / Erich S. Gruen
Hellenization of Jerusalem and Shechem / Seth Schwartz
Josephus' Tobiads : back to the second century? / Daniel R. Schwartz
Jews, Christians and others in Palestine : the evidence from Eusebius / Benjamin Isaac
Where were the Jews of the Diaspora buried? / David Noy
Graeco-Roman voluntary associations and ancient Jewish sects / Albert Baumgarten
Antichrist among Jews and Gentiles / William Horbury
Rhetoric and assumptions : Romans and rabbis on sex / Michael L. Satlow
Gambling in ancient Jewish society and in the Graeco-Roman world / Joshua Schwartz
Rabbis and the documents / Hannah M. Cotton
Jewish penal authority in Roman Judaea / Aharon Oppenheimer
Synagogue leadership : the case of the archisynagogue / Lee Levine
Structure of the Jewish community in Rome / Margaret Williams
Gifts of God at Sardis / Tessa Rajak
Dissonance and misunderstanding in Jewish-Roman relations / Sacha Stern.

Jews in a Graeco-Roman world / edited by Martin Goodman.

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