Jew and Gentile in the ancient world : attitudes and interactions from Alexander to Justinian / / Louis H. Feldman

• Autore: Feldman Louis H
• Pubblicazione: Princeton, N.J. : , : Princeton University Press, , 1993; ©1993
• Edizione: Course Book
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xii, 679 pages)
• Disciplina: 261.26
• Soggetto topico: Judaism - Relations; Jews - Public opinion - History; Jews - History - 586 B.C.-70 A.D; Jews - History - 70-638; Antisemitism - History; Judaism - Controversial literature - History and criticism; Proselytizing - Judaism - History; Philosemitism - History
• Soggetto non controllato: Against Apion; American Jews; Ancient history; Anti-Judaism; Antiochus IV Epiphanes; Arnobius; Ashkelon; Avodah Zarah; Babylonia; Babylonian captivity; Bar Kokhba revolt; Ben Sira; Bible; Book of Esther; Canaan; Christian mortalism; Conversion to Judaism; Culture of Greece; Dead Sea Scrolls; Elagabalus; Elisha ben Abuyah; Epigraphy; Essenes; Etymology; Eupolemus; Exegesis; Gentile; Greek literature; Greek mythology; Greek name; Greeks; Hebrew Bible; Hebrew language; Hebrews; Hellenistic period; Hellenization; Hermetica; Herod the Great; Herodian; Herodians; Hillel the Elder; Hyrcanus II; Israelites; Japheth; Jason of Cyrene; Jerusalem Talmud; Jewish diaspora; Jewish history; Jewish identity; Jewish literature; Jewish mysticism; Jewish name; Jewish religious movements; Jews; Joshua ben Gamla; Judah Halevi; Judaism; Judea (Roman province); Kashrut; Lactantius; Land of Israel; Letter of Aristeas; Maccabean Revolt; Maimonides; Mishnah; Mithraism; Notion (ancient city); Oenomaus of Gadara; Orthodox Judaism; Paganism; Pharisees; Philistia; Philo-Semitism; Phoenicia; Proselyte; Ptolemaic Kingdom; Ptolemy II Philadelphus; Rabbinic literature; Roman Empire; Roman Government; Sadducees; Samaritans; Saul Lieberman; Second Temple; Sicarii; Sirach; Sotah (Talmud); Stephanus of Byzantium; Suetonius; Syrian Jews; Talmudic law; Temple in Jerusalem; The Jewish War; Theophilus of Antioch; Theophrastus; Tiberias; Torah; Tosefta; Yiddish; Yishuv
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [587]-619) and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- CHAPTER 1: Contacts between Jews and Non-Jews in the Land of Israel -- CHAPTER 2: The Strength of Judaism in the Diaspora -- CHAPTER 3: Official Anti-Jewish Bigotry: The Responses of Governments to the Jews -- CHAPTER 4: Popular Prejudice against Jews -- CHAPTER 5: Prejudice against Jews among Ancient Intellectuals -- CHAPTER 6: The Attractions of the Jews: Their Antiquity -- CHAPTER 7: The Attractions of the Jews: The Cardinal Virtues -- CHAPTER 8: The Attractions of the Jews: The Ideal Leader, Moses -- CHAPTER 9: The Success of Proselytism by Jews in the Hellenistic and Early Roman Periods -- CHAPTER 10: The Success of Jews in Winning "Sympathizers" -- CHAPTER 11: Proselytism by Jews in the Third, Fourth, and Fifth Centuries -- CHAPTER 12: Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Indexes
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Altri titoli varianti: Jew & Gentile in the ancient world
• Titolo autorizzato: Jew and gentile in the ancient world
• ISBN: 1-4008-1156-2; 1-282-75163-8; 9786612751639; 1-4008-2080-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910782945803321
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