Judaism and Hellenism reconsidered / by Feldman, Louis H.

Table of Contents: “…-- Chapter 6: Studies in the Ancient Jewish Mediterranean Diaspora -- Part Two: Anti-Semitism, Philo-Semitism, Conversion to Judaism -- Chapter 7: Hatred for and Attraction to the Jews in Classical Antiquity -- Chapter 8: Reflections on Rutgers' Attitudes to Judaism in the Greco-Roman Period -- Chapter 9: Conversion to Judaism in Classical Antiquity -- Part Three: Studies in Philo -- Chapter 10: Philo's Version of the 'Aqedah -- Chapter 11: Philo, Pseudo-Philo, Josephus, and Theodotus on the Rape of Dinah -- Part Four: Josephus -- Chapter 12: Josephus -- Chapter 13: Josephus' Liberties in Interpreting the Bible in the Jewish War and in the Antiquities -- Chapter 14: Rearrangement of Pentateuchal Material in Josephus' Antiquities, Books 1-4 -- Chapter 15: The Influence of the Greek Tragedians on Josephus -- Chapter 16: Josephus' Biblical Paraphrase as a Commentary on Contemporary Issues -- Chapter 17: Parallel Lives of Two Lawgivers : Josephus' Moses and Plutarch's Lycurgus -- Chapter 18: Josephus on the Spies (Numbers 13-14) -- Chapter 19: The Rehabilitation of Non-Jewish Leaders in Josephus' Antiquities -- Chapter 20: On Professor Mark Roncace's Portraits of Deborah and Gideon in Josephus -- Chapter 21: Josephus' Portrayal (Ant. 5.136-74) of the Benjaminite Affair of the Concubine and its Repercussions (Judges 19-21) -- Chapter 22: The Importance of Jerusalem as Viewed by Josephus -- Chapter 23: The Concept of Exile in Josephus -- Chapter 24: Restoration in Josephus -- Part Five: Rabbinic Insights -- Chapter 25: Rabbinic Sources for Historical Study -- Chapter 26: Rabbinic Insights on the Decline and Forthcoming Fall of the Roman Empire -- Abbreviations -- Bibliography -- Index of Passages from Ancient Texts -- Jewish Scriptures -- Apocrypha -- Pseudepigrapha -- Dead Sea Scrolls -- New Testament -- Christian Church Fathers -- Hellenistic Jewish Literature: Philo, Pseudo-Philo, Josephus -- Other (Alleged) Graeco-Jewish Writers -- Rabbinic and Allied Literature -- Classical Greek Authors -- Classical Latin Authors -- Near Eastern Languages -- Index of Names and Subjects -- Index of Greek, Linear B, Phoenician, Akkadian, Ugaritic, Punic and Royal Aramaic, Hittite, Latin, Hebrew, and Aramaic Words -- Index of Modern Scholars.…”
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The construct of identity in Hellenistic Judaism / by Gruen, Erich S.

Table of Contents: “…Cultural fictions and cultural identity -- Hellenistic Judaism -- Fact and fiction : Jewish legends in a Hellenistic context -- Kinship relations and Jewish identity -- Hellenism and Judaism : fluid boundaries -- Jews and Greeks as philosophers : a challenge to otherness -- The purported Jewish-Spartan affiliation -- Jewish perspectives on Greek culture and ethnicity -- The use and abuse of the Exodus story -- Persia through the Jewish looking-glass -- Greeks and Jews : mutual misperceptions in Josephus' Contra Apionem -- Tacitus and the defamation of the Jews -- Diaspora and homeland -- Was there Judeophobia in classical antiquity? -- Hellenism and persecution : Antiochus IV and the Jews -- The origins and objectives of Onias' temple -- Herod, Rome, and the diaspora -- Caligula, the imperial cult, and Philo's Legatio -- The Letter of Aristeas and the cultural context of the Septuagint -- The twisted tales of Artapanus : biblical rewritings as novelistic narrative -- Jews, Greeks, and Romans in the Third Sibylline Oracle -- Subversive elements in Pseudo-Philo -- Jewish literature and the Second Sophistic.…”
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Constructs of identity in Hellenistic Judaism : essays on early Jewish literature and history / by Gruen, Erich S.

Table of Contents: “…Was There Judeophobia in Classical Antiquity? 15. Hellenism and Persecution: Antiochus IV and the Jews ; 16. …”
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