Cities, peasants and food in classical antiquity : essays in social and economic history / by Garnsey, Peter

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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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