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Jew and Gentile in the Ancient World

Attitudes and Interactions from Alexander to Justinian

by Louis H. Feldman

  • Paperback
  • 696 pages
  • Publisher: Princeton University Press
  • 15.4 x 23.3 x 3.7 cm

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Relations between Jews and non-Jews in the Hellenistic-Roman period were marked by suspicion and hate, maintain most studies of that topic. But if such conjectures are true, asks Louis Feldman, how did Jews succeed in winning so many adherents, whether full-fledged proselytes or 'sympathizers' who adopted one or more Jewish practices? Systematically evaluating attitudes toward Jews from the time of Alexander the Great to the fifth century A.D., Feldman finds that Judaism elicited strongly positive and not merely unfavorable responses from the non-Jewish population.Jews were a vigorous presence in the ancient world, and Judaism was strengthened substantially by the development of the Talmud. Although Jews in the Diaspora were deeply Hellenized, those who remained in Israel were able to resist the cultural inroads of Hellenism and even to initiate intellectual counterattacks. Feldman draws on a wide variety of material, from Philo, Josephus, and other Graeco-Jewish writers through the Apocrypha, the Pseudepigrapha, the Church Councils, Church Fathers, and imperial decrees to Talmudic and Midrashic writings and inscriptions and papyri.What emerges is a rich description of a long era to which conceptions of Jewish history as uninterrupted weakness and suffering do not apply.
Jew and Gentile in the Ancient World and Jewish Life and Thought Among Greeks and Romans
Jewish Life and Thought Among Greeks and RomansJew and Gentile in the Ancient World

  • Author

    Louis H. Feldman

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Princeton University Press

  • Published

    November 1996

  • Edition

    New edition

  • Weight

    940g

  • Page Count

    696

  • Dimensions

    15.4 x 23.3 x 3.7 cm

  • ISBN

    9780691029276

  • ISBN-10

    069102927X

  • Eden Code

    1192937

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