Jews in a Graeco-Roman World
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Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0199271399
ISBN-13
9780199271399
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Imprint
Oxford University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Feb 26th, 2004
Print length
304 Pages
Weight
416 grams
Dimensions
21.70 x 14.20 x 2.00 cms
Product Classification:
European historyAncient history: to c 500 CESocial & cultural historyJewish studies
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Studies of the social, cultural, and religious history of the Jews in the Graeco-Roman world. Contributors tackle from different angles 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.
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 peoples in the Mediterranean region, and how much Jewish evidence can be used for the history of the wider classical world. The authors make extensive use not only of types of evidence familiar to classicists, such as inscriptions and the writing of Josephus, but also Jewish religious literature, including rabbinic texts. The various studies demonstrate that, although Jews lived to some extent apart from others and with distinctive customs, in many ways this showed the cultural presuppositions and preoccupations of their gentile contemporaries. The book aims to encourage wider use of the Jewish evidence by classicists and will be important for all students of the classical world.
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