Looking In, Looking Out: Jews and Non-Jews in Mutual Contemplation : Essays for Martin Goodman on His 70th Birthday

Contents
Abbreviations
Contributors
Introduction
Part 1 Looking In
	Chapter 1 Historiography in the Time of Stasis: Reflections on the Nationalistic Uprisings in Judea/Palestine
	Chapter 2 The Ban on Circumcision as a Cause of the Bar Kokhba Revolt: A Reconsideration
	Chapter 3 “When I Die, Kill Those Elders”: The Twice-Told Tale of a Despot’s Death
	Chapter 4 Pitying Suppliant Animals
	Chapter 5 Who Are Israel in the Mishnah and Tosefta?
Part 2 Looking Out
	Chapter 6 Playing with the Moabites: Textual and Linguistic Reflections on Isaiah 15–16
	Chapter 7 Greek Identity in Josephus’s Against Apion
	Chapter 8 Josephus and Nicolaus on Arabs and Arabia
	Chapter 9 Calendars and Dates in the Early Decades of Provincia Arabia: A Reappraisal
	Chapter 10 The Rule of the Wise as an Alternative to Kingship and Democracy in Ancient Rabbinic and Philosophical Thought
	Chapter 11 A Tale of Two Cities: Rome and Jerusalem in Jewish Eschatology between 70 CE and 135 CE
Part 3 Looking Back Again
	Chapter 12 Monotheism and Religious Wars in Antiquity
	Chapter 13 Did First-Century Asian Jews Live in “Communities”?
	Chapter 14 Jewish–Christian Polemic in Martyrium Pionii
	Chapter 15 Friendships between Jews and Christians in Antiquity
	Chapter 16 Jerome, Jews, and “Hebrews”
	Chapter 17 Rufinus of Aquileia’s Eusebian Therapeutae: A Monastic Reinterpretation of Philo’s De vita contemplativa
	Chapter 18 Antiochus Proposes, Shmoni Disposes: A Syriac Poem on the Martyrs of 2 Maccabees 7
	Chapter 19 Josephus for Girls
Appendix: M. D. Goodman’s Publications
Index of Ancient Sources
Index of Authors
Index of Subjects