Israel In Prophecy

Last Name

BAKHOS

First Name

Carol, ed.

Title

Ancient Judaism in its Hellenistic Context

Publisher

Leiden; Boston: Brill

Year

2005

Group

GHT2

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"The volume had its origins in a conference, "Jewish Civilization between Athens and Jerusalem," held at the University of California, Los Angeles in June 2003."

Contents:

• Anti-Semitism in antiquity?: the case of Alexandria / John J. Collins
• Greeks and Jews: mutual misperceptions in Josephus' Contra Apionem / Eric S. Gruen
• Hebrew and imperialism in Jewish Palestine / Seth Schwartz
• The motivations of the Maccabees and Judean rhetoric of ancestral traditions / Brent Nongbri
• The Torah between Athens and Jerusalem: Jewish difference in antiquity / Martha Himmelfarb
• "The Jewish philosophy": the presence of Hellenistic philosophy in Jewish exegesis in the second temple period / Gregory E. Sterling
• "'Talking their way to empire': Jews, Christians and pagans debate resurrection of the body" / Claudia Setzer
• Jews and Judaism in the Mediterrannean diaspora in the late-Roman period: the limitations of evidence / Martin Goodman
• Between Rome and Mesopotamia: Josephus in Sasanian Persia / Richard Kalmin.