Jews and Christians in Their Graeco-Roman Context: Selected Essays on Early Judaism, Samaritanism, Hellenism & Christianity (Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 196)

Preface......Page 3
Table of Contents......Page 5
Abbreviations......Page 7
Introduction......Page 9
The Jews of Ancient Crete......Page 20
The Jews of Ancient Cyprus......Page 36
The Jews of Ancient Sicily......Page 45
The Synagogue of Sardis and its Inscriptions......Page 51
Jews and Blues in Late Antiquity......Page 61
A Note on the Evil Inclination and Sexual Desire in Talmudic Literature......Page 67
"His Days Shall Be One Hundred and Twenty Years" Genesis 6:3 in Early Judaism and Ancient Christianity......Page 74
Inscriptiones Judaicae Orientis: A Review Article......Page 79
Huldah's Tomb in Early Jewish Tradition......Page 95
Pseudo-Phocylides on the Afterlife. A Rejoinder to John Collins......Page 101
Philo's In Flaccum and the Book of Acts......Page 106
Common Prayer in Philo's In Flaccum 121-124......Page 116
Philo and the Rabbis on Genesis: Similar Questions, Different Answers......Page 122
Philo of Alexandria on the Wrath of God......Page 136
Anti-Samaritan Propaganda in Early Judaism......Page 142
Jacques Basnage (1653-1723) on the Samaritans. Or: How much did one know about the Samaritans three centuries ago in the Netherlands? . .......Page 159
Once More: The Translation of οι δε in Matthew 28:17......Page 169
Abraham's Bosom, the Place Where He Belonged. A Short Note on απενεχθηναι in Luke 16:22......Page 172
"Snorting Threat and Murder". The Hellenistic Background of Acts 9:1......Page 175
"Only then will all Israel be saved". A Short Note on the Meaning of xcd oihcog in Romans 11:26......Page 184
Macarius Magnes and the Unnamed Anti-Christian Polemicist: A review article......Page 189
A New Early Christian Poem on the Sacrifice of Isaac (Pap. Bodmer 30)......Page 198
The Role of Scripture in Cyril of Scythopolis' Lives of the Monks of Palestine......Page 214
Twenty-Five Questions to Corner the Jews. A Byzantine Anti-Jewish Document from the Seventh Century......Page 224
"The Most Superstitious and Disgusting of All Nations". Diogenes of Oenoanda on the Jews......Page 235
The Shadow in Hellenistic Popular Belief......Page 242
The First Atheist......Page 250
Subtractive Versus Additive Composite Numerals in Ancient Languages......Page 258
The Great Magical Papyrus of Paris (PGM IV) and the Bible......Page 277
"The God Who Drowned the King of Egypt". A Short Note on an Exorcistic Formula......Page 288
Original places of publication......Page 293
Bibliography of Pieter W. van der Horst, 1970-2005......Page 295
Index of passages......Page 327
Index of modern authors......Page 346
Index of names and subjects......Page 354