Antiquity in Antiquity: Jewish and Christian Pasts in the Greco-Roman World

Cover
Preface
Table of Contents
GREGG GARDNER and KEVIN L. OSTERLOH The Significance of Antiquity in Antiquity: An Introduction
	I. The Nature of This Volume
	II. Three Classicizing Ages: Contextualizing the Contributions
	III. Conclusion
Part One Jewish and Pagan Antiquities from the Late Hellenistic to the Early Imperial Period
	HOLGER M. ZELLENTIN The End of Jewish Egypt: Artapanus and the Second Exodus
		Artapanus’s Sources
			1. The Bible
			2. Diodorus
			3. Table
		The Bible in Artapanus
		Diodorus Siculus and Artapanus
		The Historical Context
			Chenephres and Ptolemy VIII
			The Decree of Amnesty of 118
			Land Reforms
			Soldiers
			Religion
		Artapanus and the Oniads
		Reading Artapanus
		Conclusion
	HARRIET I. FLOWER Remembering and Forgetting Temple Destruction: The Destruction of the Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus in 83 BC
	STEVE MASON The Greeks and the Distant Past in Josephus’s Judaean War
		I. Josephus’s World of Discourse in the War
		II. Josephus and Greek History in the War
		III. Freedom and Autonomy, Foreign and Native Government
		IV. The Statesman as Orator: A Bowdlerized National History
		Conclusions
	DORON MENDELS How Was Antiquity Treated in Societies with a Hellenistic Heritage? And Why Did the Rabbis Avoid Writing History?
		Theme I: The relationship of societies, groups, and individuals to their past: A schematic approach.
		Theme II: What were the modes for using the past in Antiquity?
		Theme III: When and by whom?
		Theme IV: The agents are not mere transmitters of the past, but rather significantly impact how antiquity is used in Antiquity.
Part Two Jewish, Pagan, and Christian Antiquities in the Greco-Roman World
	PETER SCHÄFER Rabbis and Priests, or: How to Do Away with the Glorious Past of the Sons of Aaron
	ANNETTE YOSHIKO REED “Jewish Christianity” as Counter-history?: The Apostolic Past in Eusebius’ Ecclesiastical History and the Pseudo-Clementine Homilies
		The Pseudo-Clementines and the History of the Apostolic Age
		The Homilies and Eusebius’ Ecclesiastical History
		Apostolic Succession and the Transmission of Truth
		Primordial Truth, Jewish Succession, and Apostolic Teaching
		The Apostolic Mission
		Peter, Paul, and Clement of Rome
		“Orthodoxy” and “Heresy”
		“Jewish Christianity”
	LEE I. LEVINE Jewish Collective Memory in Late Antiquity: Issues in the Interpretation of Jewish Art
		The Use of the Past
			1. Jewish Symbols
			2. Biblical Figures
			3. Biblical Scenes
			4. From Depiction to Interpretation
		Polemics and Art
		The Elusive Quest for Interpretation
			Photo Credits
	ELIZABETH KESSLER-DIMIN Tradition and Transmission: Hermes Kourotrophos in Nea Paphos, Cyprus
		Introduction
		The House of Aion
		The Epiphany Panel
		The Other Panels
		Monotheizing Dionysos
		Pagan Past
		Christian Future
		Conclusion
			Photo Credits
Part Three Antiquities of Late Antiquity and Today
	MOULIE VIDAS The Bavli’s Discussion of Genealogy in Qiddushin IV
		I. The Situation of Genealogical Knowledge
			1. The purification of Israel (70b–71a)
			2. Rav Yehuda’s trial (70a–b)
		II. The Beginning of Genealogy
			1. The Purification of Babylonia
			2. The Land and the People
	RA‘ANAN S. BOUSTAN The Spoils of the Jerusalem Temple at Rome and Constantinople: Jewish Counter-Geography in a Christianizing Empire
		I. Introduction
		II. The Limits of Positivism: The Temple Vessels at Rome, 71–192 C.E.
		III. The Fate of the Temple Implements in Rabbinic Literature, c. 200–450 C.E.
		IV. The Inventio(n) of the Temple Vessels in the Byzantine Period
		V. Jewish Relics at “Rome” in the Jewish Messianic Discourse of the Byzantine Period
		Conclusion
	YANNIS PAPADOYANNAKIS A Debate about the Rebuilding of the Temple in Sixth-Century Byzantium
		The Erotapokriseis of pseudo-Kaisarios
		Julian
		Conclusion
	G.W. BOWERSOCK Helena’s Bridle and the Chariot of Ethiopia
	ADAM H. BECKER The Ancient Near East in the Late Antique Near East: Syriac Christian Appropriation of the Biblical East
List of Contributors
Index of Sources
Index of Names and Subjects