Jews in a Graeco-Roman World

by Goodman, Martin

• ISBN13: 9780198150787
• ISBN10: 0198150784
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-03-04
• Publisher: Clarendon Press

Summary

This book collects studies of the social, cultural, and religious history of the Jews in the Graeco-Roman world. The sixteen contributors--some specialists in Jewish history, others in classical studies--tackle the extent to which Jews in this period differed from other peoples in the Mediterranean region, and how much Jewish evidence can be used for the history of the wider classical world.

Table of Contents

Abbreviations	vii	(3)
Notes on Contributors	x
PART I: The Hellenistic and Roman World: Jewish Perspectives	3	(62)
1. Jews, Greeks, and Romans	3	(12)
MARTIN GOODMAN
2. Jews, Greeks, and Romans in the Third Sibylline Oracle	15	(22)
ERICH S. GRUEN
3. The Hellenization of Jerusalem and Shechem	37	(10)
SETH SCHWARTZ
4. Josephus' Tobiads: Back to the Second Century?	47	(18)
DANIEL R. SCHWARTZ
PART II: Social Integration?	65	(28)
5. Jews, Christians and others in Palestine: The Evidence from Eusebius	65	(10)
BENJAMIN ISAAC
6. Where were the Jews of the Diaspora buried?	75	(18)
DAVID NOY
PART III: Similarities?	93	(102)
7. Graeco-Roman Voluntary Associations and Ancient Jewish Sects	93	(20)
ALBERT BAUMGARTEN
8. Antichrist among Jews and Gentiles	113	(22)
WILLIAM HORBURY
9. Rhetoric and Assumptions: Romans and Rabbis on Sex	135	(10)
MICHAEL L. SATLOW
10. Gambling in Ancient Jewish Society and in the Graeco-Roman World	145	(22)
JOSHUA SCHWARTZ
11. The Rabbis and the Documents	167	(14)
HANNAH M. COTTON
12. Jewish Penal Authority in Roman Judaea	181	(14)
AHARON OPPENHEIMER
PART IV: Differences?	195	(56)
13. Synagogue Leadership: the Case of the Archisynagogue	195	(20)
LEE LEVINE
14. The Structure of the Jewish Community in Rome	215	(14)
MARGARET WILLIAMS
15. The Gifts of God at Sardis	229	(12)
TESSA RAJAK
16. Dissonance and Misunderstanding in Jewish-Roman Relations	241	(10)
SACHA STERN
Works Cited	251	(28)
Index	279