@Book{1822044723,
author="Bloch, Ren{\'e} S.",
title="Ancient Jewish diaspora: essays on Hellenism",
series="Supplements to the Journal for the study of Judaism volume 206",
year="2022",
publisher="Brill",
address="Leiden",
keywords="Ancient Judaism; Biblical Studies; Civilization, Ancient; Jewish diaspora; Jews; History; Identity",
contents="Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Moses and Exodus -- 2 Places and Ruins -- 3 Theatre and Myth -- 4 Antisemitism and Reception -- Part 1 Moses and Exodus -- 1 Alexandria in Pharaonic Egypt: Projections in De vita Mosis -- 1 Moses and Philo as Politicians -- 2 Moses and Philo as Philosophers -- 2 Moses and the Charlatans: On the Charge of $\gamma$ό$\eta$ς $\kappa$$\alpha$ὶ ἀ$\pi$$\alpha$$\tau$$\epsilon$ώ$\nu$ in Contra Apionem 2.145, 161 -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Magic and Trickery: An Anti-Jewish Accusation? -- 3 Moses Before Pharaoh -- 4 The $\gamma$ό$\eta$$\tau$$\epsilon$ς in the Bellum and Antiquitates -- 5 A Projection of Josephus? -- 6 $\Gamma$ό$\eta$ς---An Argument from a Literary Dispute? -- 7 Conclusion -- 3 Moses: Motherless with Two Mothers -- 4 Leaving Home: Philo of Alexandria on the Exodus -- Part 2 Places and Ruins -- 5 Geography without Territory: Tacitus's Digression on the Jews and its Ethnographic Context -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Anthropogeography -- 3 Missing Ethnographic Topoi in ancient Ethnography on the Jews -- 4 Jews and Barbarians -- 5 Jewish Diaspora: Transcending Geography -- 6 Show and Tell: Myth, Tourism, and Jewish Hellenism -- 1 Hebron -- 2 Giants -- 3 Rabbinic Mirabilia and Journeys to Rome -- 4 Noah's ark -- 5 Andromeda -- 7 What If the Temple of Jerusalem Had Not Been Destroyed by the Romans? -- 1 Roman Financial Policy -- 2 The End of Sacrifice -- 3 The Jewish Diaspora -- 4 Bar Kokhba and Julian -- 5 Christianity and Rabbinic Culture -- 6 A Watershed in Jewish History? -- Part 3 Theatre and Myth -- 8 Philo's Struggle with Jewish Myth -- 9 Part of the Scene: Jewish Theater in Antiquity -- 1 Rabbinic Condemnations of Theater -- 2 Nuances in Rabbinic Discourse about the Theater -- 3 Jews Attending the Theater -- 4 Jewish Actors and Actresses -- 5 Jewish Theater Authors: Ezekiel Tragicus -- 6 Conclusion -- 10 Take Your Time: Conversion, Confidence and Tranquility in Joseph and Aseneth -- 1 Joseph and Aseneth as a Novel -- 2 Egyptian Restlesness versus Jewish Tranquility -- 3 The First Greek Novel? -- Part 4 Antisemitism and Reception -- 11 Antisemitism and Early Scholarship on Ancient Antisemitism -- 12 A Leap into the Void: The Philo-Lexikon and Jewish-German Hellenism -- 13 Tacitus's Excursus on the Jews over the Centuries: An Overview of the History of its Reception -- 1 Pagan Reception and Tertullian's Critique -- 2 Sulpicius Severus, Orosius, and Pseudo-Hegesippus -- 3 Bud{\'e}s Reproach and the First Commentaries on the Histories -- 4 Jewish Reactions in the Seventeenth Century -- 5 Simone Luzzatto -- 6 Isaac Cardoso -- 7 Baruch de Spinoza -- 8 The Eighteenth Century and the Age of Enlightenment -- 9 The Nineteenth Century -- 10 The National Socialist Period -- 11 Conclusion -- 14 Polytheism and Monotheism in Antiquity: On Jan Assmann's Critique of Monotheism -- 15 Testa incognita: The History of the Pseudo-Josephus Bust in Copenhagen -- 1 Robert Eisler -- 2 The Origins of the Bust -- Index of Cited Passages -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.",
abstract="The fifteen papers collected in this volume all tackle the complex cultures of Jewish Hellenism. The book covers a wide range of topics, divided into four clusters: Moses and Exodus, Places and Ruins, Theatre and Myth, Antisemitism and Reception",
note="Ren{\'e} Bloch",
note="Includes bibliographical references and index",
isbn="9789004521896",
doi="10.1163/9789004521896",
url="https://brill.com/view/title/63207",
url="https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004521896",
language="English"
}