Autor(en)

Williams, Margaret (ed.):

Verlag / Jahr

Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.

Format / Einband

Paperback. XII, 236 p.: Ill.

Sprache

Englisch

Gewicht

ca. 459 g

ISBN

0801859387

EAN

9780801859380

Bestell-Nr

1199754

Bemerkungen

leicht berieben, Kopf- und Fußschnitt minimal angegraut, Bleistifteintrag auf Schmutztitel, sonst gut und sauber / slightly rubbed, head and bottom edges minimally grayed, pencil entry on half title, otherwise good and clean. - As one of the few groups in the Greco-Roman world to resist cultural assimilation, the Jews remained an object of fascination throughout antiquity. Greek and Roman writers devoted much space to them, but few bothered to learn the facts about the Jews, preferring to report stereotypes and rumor. Evidence does exist, however, to show what real Jews were like in antiquity and how they interacted with the Greeks and Romans, both pagan and Christian. In The Jews among the Greeks and Romans, Margaret Williams assembles, assesses, and contextualizes literary and archaeological evidence relating to the Jewish communities outside the land of Israel. The sourcebook covers the period beginning with the Diaspora, which resulted from the chaos of Alexander the Great's death in 323 B.C.E., and concluding with the demise of the Jewish Patriarchate around 420 C.E. This was a time that saw, first, the rapid opening up of opportunities for Jews and then, in the century after Constantine, the gradual but inexorable raising of barriers against them. Newly translated from the Greek and Latin, the documents cover a broad array of topics, including religion, customs, festivals, repression, citizenship, military service, economics, intermarriage, and conversion from Jew to Gentile and Gentile to Jew. While previous collections have concentrated on literary texts, the present volume gives prominence to papyrological and epigraphic source material. Composed in accordance with Greco-Roman epigraphic conventions but written by Jews, these texts - some only recently discovered - constitute an extraordinarily rich source of information about the values and practices of Jews in antiquity. / Contents Preface Acknowledgements I The Jewish Diaspora in the Hellenistic and early Roman imperial periods Introduction 1 Its extent in prophecy and actuality 2 Reasons for the diffusion of the Jews 3 Evidence for Jewish mobility within the Graeco-Roman world 4 Statistical information about Diasporan Jews 5 Location of Jewish communities 6 Occupations of Diasporan Jews 7 Terminology for Diasporan communities II Life inside the Jewish Diasporan community 1 The synagogue as the focal point of community life 2 Officials and dignitaries 3 Community structures other than the synagogue 4. Community values 5. Distinctive Jewish practices 6. Jewish festivals 7. Divisions within the Jewish community III Diasporan Jews and the Jewish homeland 1. Pilgrimage to Jerusalem 2. Payment of ancestral dues and taxes 3. Offerings to the Temple by Diasporan Jews 4. Diasporan charitable and military aid to Palestinian Jews 5. Diasporan Jews and the transmission of information to Jerusalem 6 Immigration to Judaea of Diasporan Jews 7 Diasporan burials in Judaea 8 The Judaean authorities and the Diasporan synagogue 9. The Patriarchs and the Diaspora 10. Palestinian influence on the language of Diasporan inscriptions IV. Jewish interaction with Greek and Roman authorities 1. Jewish honours for Ptolemaic rulers 2. Ptolemaic and Seleucid privileges for the Jews 3. Jews in the service of the Seleucids and Ptolemies 4. Jewish honours for Roman Emperors 5. Privileges for Jews who were Roman citizens 6. Roman protection of the Jewish way of life 7. Jews in the service of the Roman government 8. Measures taken or threatened against the Jews by the Roman authorities V. The Jews among the Greeks 1. Jews as citizens of Greek cities 2. Jews as councillors, magistrates and official envoys 3. Jewish influence upon Greek civic life 4. Jewish involvement in Greek cultural life 5. Greek cultural influences on the Jews 6. Intermarriage between Jews and Greeks 7. Friction between Jews and Greeks 8. Jewish relations with Christians in the Greek East VI. The Jews among the Romans 1. Jews and the Roman citizenship 2. Jewish involvement in local government in the West 3. Jewish involvement in Roman cultural and religious life 4. Roman cultural influence on the Jews 5. Jewish interaction with Christians in the Roman West VII. Pagans and Judaism: academic and real-life responses 1. Two academic views of the Jews and Judaism 2. Pagans sympathetic to Judaism 3. Pagan converts to Judaism - the proselytes 4. Other adherents to Judaism - instances of disputed status 5. Syncretist cults Notes Appendices 1. Main events mentioned in this sourcebook 2. Select list of rulers 3. Egyptian months and their Julian equivalents 4. Glossary of selected names Abbreviations Bibliography Concordance of sources 1. Literary texts 2. Inscriptions 3. Papyri 4. Legal texts 5. Coins 6. Modern collections of ancient legal and literary texts Indices 1. People 2. Places 3. Jewish community terminology 4. Jewish occupations 5. Miscellaneous topics. ISBN 9780801859380

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