LEADER 04997nam 2200889Ia 450 001 9910450619403321 005 20210604014311.0 010 $a1-4008-1156-2 010 $a1-282-75163-8 010 $a9786612751639 010 $a1-4008-2080-4 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400820801 035 $a(CKB)1000000000004326 035 $a(EBL)581589 035 $a(OCoLC)53401268 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000281073 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11226920 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000281073 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10300080 035 $a(PQKB)10417211 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000185531 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12057661 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000185531 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10216146 035 $a(PQKB)10779187 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC581589 035 $a(OCoLC)51542396 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse35929 035 $a(DE-B1597)446045 035 $a(OCoLC)979756945 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400820801 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL581589 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10031910 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL275163 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000004326 100 $a19971216d1993 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aJew and Gentile in the ancient world$b[electronic resource] $eattitudes and interactions from Alexander to Justinian /$fLouis H. Feldman 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton, N.J. $cPrinceton University Press$dc1993 215 $a1 online resource (xii, 679 pages) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-691-07416-X 311 0 $a0-691-02927-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [587]-619) and indexes. 327 $tFront matter --$tCONTENTS --$tPREFACE --$tCHAPTER 1: Contacts between Jews and Non-Jews in the Land of Israel --$tCHAPTER 2: The Strength of Judaism in the Diaspora --$tCHAPTER 3: Official Anti-Jewish Bigotry: The Responses of Governments to the Jews --$tCHAPTER 4: Popular Prejudice against Jews --$tCHAPTER 5: Prejudice against Jews among Ancient Intellectuals --$tCHAPTER 6: The Attractions of the Jews: Their Antiquity --$tCHAPTER 7: The Attractions of the Jews: The Cardinal Virtues --$tCHAPTER 8: The Attractions of the Jews: The Ideal Leader, Moses --$tCHAPTER 9: The Success of Proselytism by Jews in the Hellenistic and Early Roman Periods --$tCHAPTER 10: The Success of Jews in Winning "Sympathizers" --$tCHAPTER 11: Proselytism by Jews in the Third, Fourth, and Fifth Centuries --$tCHAPTER 12: Conclusion --$tAbbreviations --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndexes 330 $aRelations 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. 606 $aJudaism$xRelations 606 $aJews$xPublic opinion$xHistory 606 $aJews$xHistory$y586 B.C.-70 A.D 606 $aJews$xHistory$y70-638 606 $aAntisemitism$xHistory 606 $aJudaism$xControversial literature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aProselytizing$xJudaism$xHistory 606 $aPhilosemitism$xHistory 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aJudaism$xRelations. 615 0$aJews$xPublic opinion$xHistory. 615 0$aJews$xHistory 615 0$aJews$xHistory 615 0$aAntisemitism$xHistory. 615 0$aJudaism$xControversial literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aProselytizing$xJudaism$xHistory. 615 0$aPhilosemitism$xHistory. 676 $a261.26 700 $aFeldman$b Louis H$0161392 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910450619403321 996 $aJew and gentile in the ancient world$9105565 997 $aUNINA