Judaism and Hellenism reconsidered

CONTENTS......Page 8
PREFACE......Page 12
INTRODUCTION: THE INFLUENCE OF HELLENISM ON JEWS IN PALESTINE IN THE HELLENISTIC PERIOD......Page 16
PART ONE JUDAISM AND HELLENISM......Page 50
CHAPTER ONE HOMER AND THE NEAR EAST: THE RISE OF THE GREEK GENIUS......Page 52
CHAPTER TWO THE SEPTUAGINT: THE FIRST TRANSLATION OF THE TORAH AND ITS EFFECTS......Page 68
CHAPTER THREE HOW MUCH HELLENISM IN THE LAND OF ISRAEL?......Page 86
CHAPTER FOUR THE RESHAPING OF BIBLICAL NARRATIVE IN THE HELLENISTIC PERIOD......Page 118
CHAPTER FIVE DID JEWS RESHAPE THE TALE OF THE EXODUS?......Page 144
CHAPTER SIX STUDIES IN THE ANCIENT JEWISH MEDITERRANEAN DIASPORA......Page 150
PART TWO ANTI-SEMITISM, PHILO-SEMITISM, CONVERSION TO JUDAISM......Page 170
CHAPTER SEVEN HATRED FOR AND ATTRACTION TO THE JEWS IN CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY......Page 172
CHAPTER EIGHT REFLECTIONS ON RUTGERS’ ATTITUDES TO JUDAISM IN THE GRECO-ROMAN PERIOD......Page 198
CHAPTER NINE CONVERSION TO JUDAISM IN CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY......Page 220
PART THREE STUDIES IN PHILO......Page 268
CHAPTER TEN PHILO’S VERSION OF THE ‘AQEDAH......Page 270
CHAPTER ELEVEN PHILO, PSEUDO-PHILO, JOSEPHUS, AND THEODOTUS ON THE RAPE OF DINAH......Page 296
PART FOUR JOSEPHUS......Page 326
CHAPTER TWELVE JOSEPHUS......Page 328
CHAPTER THIRTEEN JOSEPHUS’ LIBERTIES IN INTERPRETING THE BIBLE IN THE JEWISH WAR AND IN THE ANTIQUITIES......Page 358
CHAPTER FOURTEEN REARRANGEMENT OF PENTATEUCHAL MATERIAL IN JOSEPHUS’ ANTIQUITIES, BOOKS 1-4......Page 376
CHAPTER FIFTEEN THE INFLUENCE OF THE GREEK TRAGEDIANS ON JOSEPHUS......Page 428
CHAPTER SIXTEEN JOSEPHUS’ BIBLICAL PARAPHRASE AS A COMMENTARY ON CONTEMPORARY ISSUES......Page 460
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN PARALLEL LIVES OF TWO LAWGIVERS: JOSEPHUS’ MOSES AND PLUTARCH’S LYCURGUS......Page 538
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN JOSEPHUS ON THE SPIES (NUMBERS 13-14)......Page 572
CHAPTER NINETEEN THE REHABILITATION OF NON-JEWISH LEADERS IN JOSEPHUS’ ANTIQUITIES......Page 594
CHAPTER TWENTY ON PROFESSOR MARK RONCACE’S PORTRAITS OF DEBORAH AND GIDEON IN JOSEPHUS......Page 622
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE JOSEPHUS’ PORTRAYAL (ANT. 5.136-74) OF THE BENJAMINITE AFFAIR OF THE CONCUBINE AND ITS REPERCUSSIONS (JUDG. 19-21)......Page 652
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO THE IMPORTANCE OF JERUSALEM AS VIEWED BY JOSEPHUS......Page 692
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE THE CONCEPT OF EXILE IN JOSEPHUS......Page 710
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR RESTORATION IN JOSEPHUS......Page 738
PART FIVE RABBINIC SOURCES......Page 776
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE RABBINIC SOURCES FOR HISTORICAL STUDY......Page 778
CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX RABBINIC INSIGHTS ON THE DECLINE AND FORTHCOMING FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE......Page 798
ABBREVIATIONS......Page 820
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 828
Jewish Scriptures......Page 860
Apocrypha......Page 874
New Testament......Page 875
Christian Church Fathers......Page 876
Hellenistic Jewish Literature......Page 877
Other (Alleged) Graeco-Jewish Writers......Page 903
Rabbinic and Allied Literature......Page 904
Classical Greek Authors......Page 911
Classical Latin Authors......Page 920
Near Eastern Languages......Page 923
INDEX OF NAMES AND SUBJECTS......Page 926
INDEX OF GREEK, LINEAR B, PHOENICIAN, AKKADIAN, UGARITIC, PUNIC AND ROYAL ARAMAIC, HITTITE, LATIN, HEBREW, AND ARAMAIC WORDS......Page 944
INDEX OF MODERN SCHOLARS......Page 958