The Jewish Dialogue with Greece and Rome: Studies in Cultural and Social Interaction.
Boston, Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, Inc., 2002. Softbound. Octavo, paper covers, xx, 580 pp., indexes. Very Good. Item #38576
ISBN: 0391041339
For scholars and students from a wide variety of backgrounds interested in Judaism in the Greco-Roman world.
Tessa Rajak is currently Reader in Classics, University of Reading, and Associate Director, AHRB Research Centre for the Study of Jewish Non-Jewish Relations.
This volume includes twenty-seven interdisciplinary essays written by Tessa Rajak, a well-known scholar, on aspects of Judaism in the Greco-Roman world. The essays derive 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 book is divided into four sections: Greeks and Jews, Josephus, The Jewish Diaspora and Epigraphy, and an epilogue, which addresses modern uses and abuses of the Greek-Jewish polarity as exemplified by three nineteenth-century writers. Scholars and students from a wide variety of backgrounds will benefit.
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