Ancient Judaism in Its Hellenistic Context (2005 Bakhos), edited volume

Ancient Judaism in Its Hellenistic Context (2005) is a volume edited by Carol Bakhos.

Editions and translations

Published in Leiden: Brill, 2005 (Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism, 95).

Table of contents

• Anti-Semitism in antiquity? : the case of Alexandria / John J. Collins
• Greeks and Jews: mutual misperceptions in Josephus' Contra Apionem / Eric S. Gruen
• Hebrew and imperialism in Jewish Palestine / Seth Schwartz
• The motivations of the Maccabees and Judean rhetoric of ancestral traditions / Brent Nongbri
• The Torah between Athens and Jerusalem: Jewish difference in antiquity / Martha Himmelfarb
• "The Jewish philosophy": the presence of Hellenistic philosophy in Jewish exegesis in the Second Temple period / Gregory E. Sterling
• "Talking their way into empire": Jews, Christians and pagans debate resurrection of the body / Claudia Setzer
• Jews and Judaism in the Mediterranean diaspora in the late-Roman period: the limitations of evidence / Martin Goodman
• Between Rome and Mesopotamia: Josephus in Sasanian Persia / Richard Kalmin

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