The image of the Jews in Greek literature: the Hellenistic Period/
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Berkeley ; Lodnon:
University of California Press,
c2010
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| Series: | The S. Mark Taper Foundation imprint in Jewish studies Hellenistic culture and society
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Part I. From Alexander and the Successors to the Religious Persecutions of Antiochus Epiphanes (333-168 B.C.E.)
- Theophrastus on Jewish Sacrificial Practices and the Jews as a Community of Philosophers
- Aristotle, the Learned Jew, and the Indian Kalanoi in Clearchus
- The Jewish Ethnography by Hecataeus of Abdera
- Megasthenes on the "Physics" of the Greeks, Brahmans and the Jews
- Hermippus of Smyrna on Pythagoras, the Jews, and the Thracian
- The Diachronic Libels and Accusations (A): Mnaseas of Patara and the Origins and Developments of the Ass Libel
- Part II. The Hasmonaean Period: From the Jewish Revolt to the Roman Conquest (167-63 B.C.E.)
- The Diachronic Libels and Accusations (B): The Seleucid Court Historian and the Blood Libel
- Agatharchides of Cnidus on the Sabbath as a Superstition
- The Diachronic Libels and Accusations (C): Lysimachus of Alexandria and the Egyptian Hostile Accounts of the Exodus
- Posidonius of Apamea (A): The Man and his Writings
- Posidonius of Apamea (B): The Jewish Ethnography in Strabo's Geographica; Mosaic Judaism versus Second Temple Judaism
- Posidonius of Apamea (C): Josephus on the Siege of Jerusalem by Antiochus VII Sidetes (132/1 B.C.E.); Antiochus the Pious and Hyrcanus the Tyrant
- Posidonius of Apamea (D): The Anti-Jewish Libels and Accusations in Diodorus and Apion
- The Geographical Description of Jerusalem by Timochares. the Siege, and the Libels
- The Anti-Jewish Ethnographic Treatise by Apollonius Molon
- Conclusion
- Appendix: The God of Moses in Strabo / Ivor Ludlam.