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Jew and Gentile in the Ancient World

Attitudes and Interactions from Alexander to Justinian [Paperback]

by Louis H. Feldman

    • Author

      Louis H. Feldman

    • Book Format

      Paperback

    • Publisher

      Princeton University Press

    • Published

      November 1996

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      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 vigorous presence in the ancient world, and Judaism was strengthened substantially by the development of the Talmud. Although Jews in the Diaspora were deeply Hellenized, those who remained in Israel were able to resist the cultural inroads of Hellenism and even to initiate intellectual counterattacks. Feldman draws on a wide variety of material, from Philo, Josephus, and other Graeco-Jewish writers through the Apocrypha, the Pseudepigrapha, the Church Councils, Church Fathers, and imperial decrees to Talmudic and Midrashic writings and inscriptions and papyri.What emerges is a rich description of a long era to which conceptions of Jewish history as uninterrupted weakness and suffering do not apply.

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      • Author

        Louis H. Feldman

      • Book Format

        Paperback

      • Publisher

        Princeton University Press

      • Published

        November 1996

      • Edition

        New edition

      • Weight

        940g

      • Page Count

        696

      • Dimensions

        154 x 233 x 37 mm

      • ISBN

        9780691029276

      • ISBN-10

        069102927X

      • Eden Code

        1192937

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      • Author/Creator: Louis H. Feldman

      • ISBN: 9780691029276

      • Publisher: Princeton University Press

      • Release Date: November 1996

      • Weight: 940g

      • Dimensions: 154 x 233 x 37 mm

      • Eden Code: 1192937

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