Diaspora : Jews amidst Greeks and Romans /
"What was life like for Jews settled throughout the Mediterranean world of Classical antiquity - and what place did Jewish communities have in the diverse civilization dominated by Greeks and Romans? In a probing account of the Jewish diaspora in the four centuries from Alexander the Great'...
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Cambridge, MA :
Harvard University Press,
2002.
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Table of Contents:
- The Jews in Rome
- The Jews in Alexandria
- Jews in the province of Asia
- Civic and sacral institutions in the diaspora
- Diaspora humor I: historical fiction
- Diaspora humor II: biblical recreations
- Jewish constructs of Greeks and Hellenism
- Diaspora and homeland.