Early Judaism- A Comprehensive Overview

Textual Discoveries from Palestine The manuscripts from Qumran Caves 1-11, Wadi Murabba{at, Jericho, and Wadi Seiyal, as well as ...

Jews among Greeks and Romans Miriam Pucci Ben Zeev The relations of Jews with Greeks and Romans during the Second Temple period ...

The Jews under Hellenistic Rule The Legal Status of Jews under the Ptolemies and Seleucids Already in the Persian period (539-33 ...

ochus IV Epiphanes as a rebellion against Seleucid rule, this provoked not only a military reaction but also an enforced Helleni ...

Syria.... There... they built in the land now called Judea a city... and gave it the name of Jerusalem” (Ag. Ap.1.73-91). The ot ...

lingua franca of the East — Greek culture spread widely and reached all the countries under Hellenistic governments, influencing ...

In 2 Maccabees, which deals with the history of the Jewish people in Judea at the time of Antiochus IV Epiphanes (175-164b.c.e.) ...

who adhered to Jewish practices. Hybrid cases are also attested, as that of a certain Moschios, son of Moschios, who is mentione ...

The Jews in Rome Even though a foreign labor force had increasingly become a necessity in the Roman economy, the Romans did not ...

tive feature of Jewish observance. Caustic comments on the Jews appear in the work of Juvenal, in a combination of cultural and ...

Jews and Greeks in the Eastern Mediterranean Diaspora A Problem of Sources We have far better information concerning the relatio ...

lenders (Flacc.57). Alexander the Alabarch, Philo’s brother, belonged in the highest stratum of Jewish society and held an impor ...

Jews were killed (Ant.18.372-76). Those who managed to escape fled to Ctesiphon, a Greek city near Seleucia, but there too the l ...

Asia Minor In Asia Minor Jewish settlements were apparently a conspicuous element of the local population. The Jews had formed v ...

same issues were still pending. Quoting the work of Nicholas of Damascus, Herod’s secretary, who personally witnessed the episod ...

vate the dilapidated temples in their own cities but sent their monies to a temple way off in Jerusalem. They therefore took ste ...

Yet significant changes, both good and bad, occurred in other areas. The abolition of Ptolemaic monopolies opened new possibilit ...

lived in the city as a simple resident. The scribe’s rewording may well indi- cate that a legal dispute lay behind the issue. A ...

often identified with the donkey, an animal abhorred by the Egyptians (Ag. Ap.2.79-80). Another feature of Judaism criticized in ...

2.487-98). And some years later, in the aftermath of the First Revolt, the citizens of Alexandria appealed to Titus to strip the ...