The Jewish Dialogue with Greece and Rome

Studies in Cultural and Social Interaction
Erscheinungsjahr 2000
ISBN: 978-90-04-11285-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 48, 560 Seiten, Format (B × H): 173 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 1207 g

Reihe: Arbeiten zur Geschichte des antiken Judentums und des Urchristentums

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 Three are previously unpublished, including a reappraisal of the Judaism and Hellenism debate and a study of the Sardis synagogue.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

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Rajak, Tessa

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien

Über Autor(innen)

Tessa Rajak, D.Phil., Oxon is currently Reader in Classics University of Reading, and Associate Director, AHRB Research Centre for the Study of Jewish Non-Jewish Relations. She is the author of Josephus: The Historian and His Society (London 1984) and joint editor of The Jews Among Pagans and Christians in the Roman Empire (London 1993).