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Jew and Gentile in the Ancient World : Attitudes and Interactions from Alexander to Justinian.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2001.Description: 1 online resource (691 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781400820801
  • 1400820804
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Jew and Gentile in the Ancient World : Attitudes and Interactions from Alexander to Justinian.DDC classification:
  • 261.26
LOC classification:
  • BM534
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  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of 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 PeriodsCHAPTER 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.
Summary: 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 vigoro.

Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of 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 PeriodsCHAPTER 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.

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 vigoro.

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