Author: FELDMAN, LOUIS H.
Title: Studies in Hellenistic Judaism [Arbeiten zur Geschichte des Antiken Judentums und des Urchristentums, XXX]
Description: Leiden, Brill, 1996. 677 pp. Fine copy. Hardcover (without dustj.). Ancient Jewish History. This volume consists of twenty-three essays that have appeared in nineteen different journals and other publications during a period of over forty years, together with an introduction. The essays deal primarily with the relations between Jews and non-Jews during the period from Alexander the Great to the end of the Roman Empire, in five areas: Josephus; Judaism and Christianity; Latin literature and the Jews; the Romans in Rabbinic literature; and other studies in Hellenistic Judaism. The topics include a programmatic essay comparing Hebraism and Hellenism, pro-Jewish intimations in Apion and in Tacitus, the influence of Josephus on Cotton Mather, Philo's view on music, the relationship between pagan and Christian anti-Semitism, observations on rabbinic reaction to Roman rule, and new light from inscriptions and papyri on Diaspora synagogues. ISBN: 9789004104181

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