Essays on Ancient and Modern Judaism = Pagine ebraiche (1994 @1987 Momigliano / Masella-Gayley), book (English ed.)

Essays on Ancient and Modern Judaism (1994) is the English edition of Pagine ebraiche (1987 Momigliano), book. Translated from the Italian by Maura Masella-Gayley.

Abstract

Many of the essays, originally written in Italian, appear in English for the first time.

Editions

Published in Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1994.

Table of contents

Biblical studies and classical studies: simple reflections upon the historical method -- Jews and Greeks -- Daniel and the Greek theory of imperial succession -- The second book of Maccabees -- Problems of method in the interpretation of Judeo-Hellenistic symbols -- An apology of Judaism: the Against Apion by Flavius Josephus -- What Flavius Josephus did not see -- Flavius Josephus and Alexander's visit to Jerusalem -- Preliminary indications on the apocalypse and exodus in the Hebrew tradition -- Prophecy and historiography -- A medieval Jewish autobiography -- The Jews of Italy -- Jewish stories and memoirs of our times -- Felice Momigliano (1866-1924) -- Jacob Bernays -- A note on Max Weber's definition of Judaism as a pariah religion -- Hermeneutics and classical political thought in Leo Strauss -- Gershom Scholem's autobiography -- Walter Benjamin -- Moses Finley on slavery: a personal note -- Gertrud Bing (1892-1964) -- In memoriam: Eduard Fraenkel -- The absence of the third Bickerman -- A review of Cecil Roth's Gli Ebrei in Venezia -- Judaism and anti-Semitism / Antonio Gramsci